Posted April 14, 2011 by Helga Yagüe
Security experts have warned of a new spam campaign that is spreading Facebook like wildfire through provocative pictures of girls that hide malicious links.
This new technique works by labeling the social network users in this type of photos that include a message inviting you to "find out who your main supporters" .
Accompanying the message and the striking photo is a link where users must click to use the application and find out who the contacts are more updates.
little cautious when a user clicks the link, you will be redirected to a malicious application prompted the introduction of some data as user name and password, and various permits.
From there starts the machinery of spam. The user receives a message informing him that the application is unavailable while are published without consent pictures of the same nature in their profile in which tag to your contacts to get a viral effect.
also will be posted on the walls the pictures with the message that invites you to discover its main supporters.
For now, the application will not jeopardize your safety as merely extends annoying spam, but experts fear that when applications are sufficiently spread false and "cyber-criminals begin to publish Through it, the walls of all concerned, messages that lead to sites infected with malware ", notes from BitDefender.
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