Infosecurity.Com - Webroot issued a warning late last week about a rouge Facebook application that infected nearly 5 million users in just 48 hours. This comes on the heels of a report from fellow security vendor GFI Software that it saw an increase in such applications targeting the social network in March.
GFI noted that many of the Facebook scams centered on the recent earthquake and nuclear emergency in Japan.
“In March, we saw an apparently endless collection of scams related to the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, including fake donation websites, Facebook clickjacking and 419 spam emails”, commented Christopher Boyd, senior threat researcher with GFI Software. “In addition, we also observed search engine poisoning involving radiation levels that sent people to malware sites.”
GFI’s data, collected from users of its ThreatNet automated threat tracking system, showed that trojans made up 8 of the top ten malware detections during March, with the remaining two comprising adware infections. Read More
