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POPSSocial networks hotbeds for cybercrime, says Microsoft
"The popularity of social networking sites has created new opportunities for cyber criminals to not only directly impact users, but also friends, colleagues and family through impersonation," the report said. "These techniques add to an existing list of social engineering techniques, such as financial and product promotions, to extort money or trick users into downloading malicious content." Social engineering is a reference to fooling people to access machines or data instead of trying to hack into networks using software skills. Microsoft noticed a "polarisation" of cyber criminal behaviour and a surge in the use of "marketing-like" deception tactics to steal money from people. Detections of software crafted to infect machines with pop-up advertisements meanwhile rose 70 per cent from the middle of last year to the end of December, the report indicated. Rogue security software, referred to as "scareware," was one of the most common ways for cyber criminals
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POPSFacebook Bombarded With Fake Antivirus Scan
In what seems to be an irritating start to the New Year for Facebook users worldwide, fake virus alerts are coercing social networkers to download antivirus software. The finding, compiled by Panda Labs, spells problem for the social network site giant since these fake virus alerts, also famous as scareware, are playing havoc with Facebook users and encouraging them to download fake antivirus software. These fake alerts are passed on through Facebook messaging service through bulk message forwards or through ‘wall’ postings. Messages become visible in an inbox or on the user’s ‘wall’ telling them their Facebook would speed up by deleting an application called ‘un named app.’ A user can add a lot of applications on their Facebook profile. The irony here is that there is totally no malicious link in the message that is being forwarded or posted on the user’s ‘wall,’ but trouble starts when a user starts searching for more information on the application. A
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POPSFacebook Bombarded With Fake Antivirus Scan In what seems to be an irritating start to the New Year for Facebook users worldwide, fake virus alerts are coercing social networkers to download antivirus software. The finding, compiled by Panda Labs, spells problem for the social network site giant since these fake virus alerts, also famous as scareware, are playing havoc with Facebook users and encouraging them to download fake antivirus software. These fake alerts are passed on through Facebook messaging service through bulk message forwards or through ‘wall’ postings. Messages become visible in an inbox or on the user’s ‘wall’ telling them their Facebook would speed up by deleting an application called ‘un named app.’ A user can add a lot of applications on their Facebook profile. The irony here is that there is totally no malicious link in the message that is being forwarded or posted on the user’s ‘wall,’ but trouble starts when a user starts searching for more information on the application. A
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