Appears many standalone applications on Facebook
Security firm Trend Micro has warned Facebook users about the emergence of a number of phishing software, hijacking the access credentials and spam news to the list of user friends .
Accordingly, six applications named " Stream ", " Posts ", " Your Photos ", " Birthday Invitations ", " Inbox (1) ", " Inbox (2) " are identified as malware. potentially endangering your Facebook account.
Photos of malicious applications spread in Facebook.
The presence of these applications is the occupation of the user's login credentials. After that, it will automatically send a message to the members of the Friend List with the form content ' (user name) has sent you a message ', along with a link. contains malicious code, which leads to fucabook.com homepage (Registered by a person with Armenian nationality).
But even if you have canceled the login credentials of this page, the browser will still automatically return to the Facebook page, with the installation screen of an application called ' Post '. This process goes on and you unknowingly become a person who spreads malicious code to your friends without knowing it.
A few weeks ago, an application called ' sex sex sex and more sex !!! "has attracted 287,000 curious members to register, and has the same situation as" spam "similar to this. This malicious application will automatically send messages to members of your friends list to have can continue to 'replicate' their networks.
Although it has not caused any serious consequences, it also makes many people feel annoyed by the situation of being "spammed" by a rampant message in a short period of time.
The representative of Facebook said it is urgently conducting research on this phenomenon, and will offer solutions to overcome in the shortest time.
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