Be Careful, Facebook Applications Can Steal Login And Send Spam

The famous security company, Trend Micro reported, last Wednesday (19/08) concerning the existence of the Facebook application that could steal information login and sent spam to other victims. So far, there are 6 applications’ evil ‘that has been identified., That is, the “Stream”, “Posts”, “Your Photos”, “Birthday invitations”, “Inbox (1)”, and “Inbox (2)”. According to Rik Ferguson, Trend Micro researchers, all applications are still active in the circumstances except for the “Stream”.

The activity of the six applications, according to Ferguson, was begun this Sunday with the existence of the notification from an application named “sex of sex sex and more sex!!!” , that had 287.000 fans. Contains a notification that someone has been posting on it. Ferguson added that the application is not ‘evil’ and thus may be used to distribute spam.

The first notification take the form of hyperlink that afterwards headed to the site phishing in the domain “fucabook.com”, that teregister on behalf of someone in Armenia. After the user provides login information, the user will be directed to the Facebook application and an installation called “Posts”. When installed, the application will send spam to your friends with user notification “Profile_name has sent you a message”, with additional hyperlinks to the same phishing sites. However, then a hyperlink is then directed to an IP address that simple, not to domain “fucabook.com” is.