This past weekend, and in the last hours of the most Face book users have noticed strange messages appear on their message boards, in particular, have made their appearance with phantom videos starring some of our contacts. Each video is also accompanied by a comment like “contact name I did not think I could do something like that "or other simple phrases that should arouse curiosity.
In fact it is not video but of malicious code that is spreading on social networks by exploiting a difficult element to hold off: the human curiosity. Experts say that the image preview of the video is slightly smaller than those on YouTube, or it is completely absent from the play button, in addition, messages of comment would always be the same. Those items listed above are, however, that only will be carefully noted.
Once you click on the video, the user is asked to perform some tasks that straight lines are intended to enable the malicious code to spread to their contacts list. At the moment it is unclear whether this surge in fraudulent video on Face book has a real payload, is devoid of any consequences, or intend to establish a breach on infected systems to be exploited in the future for other operations.
Symantec recently released some details about these sorts of problems for the American giant's 15% of the security video on Face book circulation were due to actions like jacking , a term used to identify the problem at hand and derived from the known click jacking. Tornado in social networks, we point out the existence of the app Norton Safe Web dedicated to quick and very useful to detect situations similar to those just described, even if the user is required as usual care and prudence. In fact, as shown by the following two images, the control is done on the link in your wall, but in the case of the threat we're talking about the link facebook.com is the banal, while with the click of the mouse you will be sent to a very different page.
Posted by: Wasim Javed
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