Friday, 27 February 2009

Social Networking meets Rogue Antvirus

A second rogue facebook app has hit the social networking site. The issue here is that Facebook allows anyone to write a facebook app (mistake #1) and that apps are not vetted before being made available(mistake #2). Although the first app was used as a mechanism to spread the likes of AV360 (rogue antivirus) it seems that the latest attack is a way to harvest information. I am thinking there is more to come on this malware/hacking vector - Facebook best fess up and start vetting!
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