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Threat Lab Report: New Facebook Phishing Attack on the Rise

Posted By Netgear Threat Lab at 11:59 PM, May 31, 2010

facebook (2).png Facebook will top 500 million users by June. While more and more friends are getting in touch with each other via Facebook, we see the same rapid growth in the number of viruses and phishing schemes using Facebook as its vehicle to the end user. Studies have shown that Facebook, along with Ebay and Paypal become the most common targets for phishers.

Our labs and other malware monitoring organizations around the world have recently intercepted a large number of Facebook phishing messages. What makes these messages different is that, it is not limited to stealing the usernames and passwords of Facebook accounts, but also attempts to exploit a number of well-known vulnerabilities and install malicious software on the end user machine.

This type of phishing message usually has an eye catching subject such as "photos of sex with my new girlfriend" along with a message like "i remember you asked me for photos of sex with my new girlfriend. Take the url: upload.***.tld/vb087bl/". When users click on the link, they will be taken to the phishing page "auth.facebook.com.***.tld/vb087bl/LoginFacebook.php". On this page is a tiny iframe that tries to push malware to the end user via some well known software vulnerabilities.

Again, we recommend users of Facebook to use good judgement before clicking on suspicious messages.

Posted by: Netgear Threat Lab at 11:59 PM
Categories: Phishing

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