Earlier, time-to-time we aware you about the latest online spam or scam on the largest social media network Facebook, according to a report it has been also identified that, Facebook is the primary choice of hackers.
This time the Malware seems to be the same but as hackers use social engineering very smartly and they use all the tactics to make you click on the link, this time a post with your friend’s picture which claims to show naked video of your friend whose pic associated with the post has been shared by Millions of people.
Malicious Post looks like:
See (Friend)’s naked video,” or “(Friend Name’s) Private Video.
If anyone not aware about these type of tactics will surely want to know his/her friends’ naked video and will click on the Malicious link, that’s it you are now redirected to an unknown web URL, which shows that you didn’t updated your Flash Player and you have to update that to see the video,if you click that link- a browser extension will be downloaded on your PC and can steal you personal information or work like a silent keylogger-which will record and send every keystroke to attacker.
“When the link is clicked, users are sent to a very realistic-looking mockup of a YouTube page, where the hackers will try to immediately install the Malware Trojan.” wltx reports.
This Malware has affected more that 2 million Facebook users and upon clicking the link, it will be published on your friends’ timeline automatically.
So, before clicking an unknown link, think about it, if you clicked over there never install or download suspicious files, and never fill any personal or financial information on the suspicious webpage, below is an example to show how paypal phishing site looks like:
