Information Madness

A similar attack was launched this weekend designed to infect the computers with type of adware that pretty much resembled the previous one. That is why the IT security and data protection firm Sophos is raising the alarm again. This attack was in the form of fake video which was send to different Facebook profiles entitled ‘distracting beach babes’.

The fake post appeared to come from a facebook friend and had the following content:, this is hilarious!lol:P,:P,:P,Distracting Beach babes[HQ] length:5:32.The second part of the message was a movie thumbnail displaying a woman in bikini.

According to Sophos experts clicking on the thumbnail wouldn’t play the video but take the user to a false Facebook application informing them that they have not installed the proper player software and tricks them to install an adware that generates revenues. The false facebook application then sends the same message and the video link to all friends of the user. By this way the virus spreads across the whole social network. Sophos reckons that hundreds of thousands of users were affected. Similar was the situation the last week with the spread of the fake video ‘sexiest video ever’. In the last two Saturdays users of the Facebook were affected massively by a rogues and adware threats in the forms of sexy videos.

According to Graham Clueley,Senior Technology consultant at Sophos it is necessary nowadays for The Facebook to create an early warning system for the users which will have the function to warn them by displaying a message on their screen for all newly emerging threats. Clueley was not pleased by the fact that the users were not warned for this attack by the specially created facebook group for dealing with security issues numbering over 1.8 million fans. Clueley stated that if the necessary measures were not taken, another attack in this coming weekend would affect many more Facebook users.Clueley claimed also that Facebook must prevent these attacks from happening and coordinate its efforts in dealing with such kinds of threats.

It is advised for all facebook users hit by these attacks to refuse to run facebook application.