According to security researchers, some Facebook users have been recently infected with a worm after clicking on an image of a scantily clad woman, which then redirects the victims to a pornography site.
The worm posts an image on a victim’s Facebook Wall with a photo of a woman in a bikini and the message “click ‘da button, baby.”
Since wall posts are viewable by a Facebook user’s friends, if a friend clicks on the image and is logged into Facebook, the image is then posted to their own Wall. Their Web browser will then open a Web page with a larger version of the same image. A further click on “da button” redirects the friend to a pornography site, according to Roger Thompson chief research officer for antivirus vendor AVG Technologies.
Most likely the creators are earning money by directing referrals to the site.
Researchers aren’t quite sure exactly how the worm works but believe it may be a cross-site request forgery attack (CSRF) or a clickjacking attack or a mix of both.
Facebook warned its users not to click on suspicious links, though it will be hard enough to identify infected links given the monstrous amount of Wall postings including graphics, applications, audio, video and other posts that usually appear all over on a Facebook profile wall.
So, surf safe and as you have got a vague idea of what the infected link will look like, yes a “bikini clad video” link, do your part by staying away from links posted through unknown source or strangers and remove the above said link if it ever comes up on our profile before it goes on a fission reaction and hope that some remedy will come out fast to tackle this thing.
Source: [ pcworld ]
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