{"id":21773,"date":"2011-05-23T12:46:58","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T17:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=21773"},"modified":"2011-05-23T12:46:58","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T17:46:58","slug":"malware-minute-facebook-a-haven-for-scams-phishing-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/malware-minute-facebook-a-haven-for-scams-phishing-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"Malware Minute: Facebook &#8211; A Haven for Scams, Phishing &#038; Threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>By GFI Vipre<\/b><\/p>\n<p>No matter how fun and interesting (not to mention newsworthy)&nbsp;<i>Facebook<\/i> is, the said social networking site has indeed become a haven to a motley of threats, from <a href=\"http:\/\/sunbeltblog.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/facebook-rollercoaster-scam-now-in.html\" target=\"_blank\">scams<\/a>, to <a href=\"http:\/\/sunbeltblog.blogspot.com\/2011\/03\/facebook-app-pages-serve-up-javascript.html\" target=\"_blank\">nasty apps<\/a>, to <a href=\"http:\/\/sunbeltblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/facebook-login-phishing.html\">phishing<\/a> pages. Users who spent much of their time in there&nbsp;would probably be familiar with wall posts from friends or other contacts cajoling them to &#8220;see who is stalking you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We found a new version of such a post lurking on <i>Facebook<\/i> recently. In all respects, this &#8220;Stalker Tracker&#8221; is the same as its&nbsp;predecessors, from the link to where users can find it to displaying (You guessed it) surveys:<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-YCOwfGnDz34\/TdTWvSOnkOI\/AAAAAAAAABs\/e7AuMSJf0uI\/s1600\/jovfbstlk1.gif\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-YCOwfGnDz34\/TdTWvSOnkOI\/AAAAAAAAABs\/e7AuMSJf0uI\/s1600\/jovfbstlk1.gif\" \/ target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: -webkit-auto;\"> \n<\/div>\n<p>What makes this one personal, thus extra special, is not much about hinting on an unnamed &#8220;ex&#8221; but the somewhat-exciting-if-not-freaking-horrible possibility of that certain someone checking out <i>your<\/i> profile. Clicking the link found at the bottom of the spam post eventually leads users to <i><b>profilespyxs(dot)info<\/b><\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>This website contains various other pages. It also has a redirect link to a&nbsp;<i>Facebook<\/i> page called &#8220;Profile Peekers&#8221; and a page designed to launch a survey. The &#8220;Profile Peekers&#8221; page has a section containing JavaScript code where visitors can readily copy from and paste into their Internet browser address bar. This code is responsible for posting the spam on walls, thus, spreading the scam further.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-PlG73mztt9Y\/TdTXqLbBqpI\/AAAAAAAAACE\/P1B79PD9lPA\/s1600\/jovfbstlk4.gif\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"242\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-PlG73mztt9Y\/TdTXqLbBqpI\/AAAAAAAAACE\/P1B79PD9lPA\/s320\/jovfbstlk4.gif\" width=\"320\" target=\"_blank\" ><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Click to Enlarge<\/div>\n<p> <br \/>\nWhat sets this survey scam apart from the rest of its kind is the way it presents the survey to users. The initial page looks normal:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-IgJR1oCmNpk\/TdTXHp8WBSI\/AAAAAAAAAB0\/AwtbfjvuBjc\/s1600\/jovfbstlk2.gif\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-IgJR1oCmNpk\/TdTXHp8WBSI\/AAAAAAAAAB0\/AwtbfjvuBjc\/s1600\/jovfbstlk2.gif\" width=\"320\"  target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p> <br \/>\n&#8230;until a <i>second<\/i> splash window is displayed so it sits on top of the first one.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/sunbeltblog.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/to-know-or-not-to-know-that-is-facebook.html\" target=\"_blank\">GFI Vipre Malware Protection Center&#8211;Learn More<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/techtalk.pcpitstop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20101109sunbeltmalware.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"GFI\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-18914\" \/><\/p>\n<p>No matter how fun and interesting (not to mention newsworthy)&nbsp;<i>Facebook<\/i> is, the said social networking site has indeed become a haven to a motley of threats, from <a href=\"http:\/\/sunbeltblog.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/facebook-rollercoaster-scam-now-in.html\" target=\"_blank\">scams<\/a>, to <a href=\"http:\/\/sunbeltblog.blogspot.com\/2011\/03\/facebook-app-pages-serve-up-javascript.html\" target=\"_blank\">nasty apps<\/a>, to <a href=\"http:\/\/sunbeltblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/facebook-login-phishing.html\" target=\"_blank\">phishing<\/a> pages. Users who spent much of their time in there&nbsp;would probably be familiar with wall posts from friends or other contacts cajoling them to &#8220;see who is stalking you.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":66012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[524,4885,58],"class_list":["post-21773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-malware-minute","tag-facebook-scams","tag-gfi-vipre","tag-malware-minute-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Malware Minute: Facebook - A Haven for Scams, Phishing &amp; Threats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"No matter how fun and interesting (not to mention newsworthy)&nbsp;Facebook is, the said social networking site has indeed become a haven to a motley of threats, from scams, to nasty apps, to phishing pages. 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