Face book user have been bombard with up till now one more spam review scam, this occasion using the entice of a video allegedly depicting actress Miley Cirus taking drugs. In a blog post, Sophos senior technology consultant Graham Cluley warned that the survey scams typically arrive from a user’s friend’s account with a message such as: “OMG Miley Cyrus is caught smoking a BONG on video [LINK]”.
Clicking on the link will obtain a user from side to side to another page talented the footage, and clicking through again will enable a rogue Face book request to run on the user’s computer.“If you do agree to grant the authorization, you’ll be taken to an online survey (part of the CPALead network) which earn cash for the scammers through affiliate revenue,” Cluley explained.
“While you’re finishing the survey, and earning the scammers a few money, their rogue claim has posted the link onto your wall, sharing it with your friends and thus perpetuating the scam even more.”He warned that scams of this type could also be used to filch personal information. “If you’ve been hit by a scam like this, get rid of reference to it from your newsfeed, and withdraw the right of rogue application to right of entry your profile via Account/ Privacy Settings/ Applications and web sites,” wrote Cluley.
Social engineering-led attacks such as this are probable to grow in popularity in 2011, according to several security vendors.Trend Micro warned in its prediction for the impending year that the practice will become increasingly popular via email, as it is a more measurable way of sending out malware than infiltrating web sites as part of a drive-by-download attack.