{"id":1303,"date":"2019-04-06T19:33:35","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T19:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=1303"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T17:00:00","slug":"Distracting-Beach-Babes-Facebook-Malware-Attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=1303","title":{"rendered":"Distracting Beach Babes Facebook Malware Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Facebook has been hit by a malware attack disguised as a video supposedly showing &#8220;Distracting Beach Babes&#8221;. The malware messages have been appearing on the Walls of many Facebook users. \u00a0 <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- HS Net Top Content Responsive --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"4870821038\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>The messages, which look like they have been posted by friends of the Facebook user, feature a thumbnail of a woman&#8217;s bottom in a revealing bikini and a link labelled &#8220;Distracting Beach Babes HQ&#8221;. The post also includes the message:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><b>[Name of Facebook user], this is hilarious LOL \u00f0\u0178\u02dc\u203a \u00f0\u0178\u02dc\u203a :P&#8221;<\/b><\/div>\n<p> &nbsp;<br \/>\nThose who click the link in the mistaken belief that they are about to view a &#8220;beach babe&#8221; video will actually open a rogue Facebook application. If the user gives permission for the rogue app to run, he or she will then be prompted to follow another link to update their Flash video player.<\/p>\n<p>However, clicking this &#8220;update&#8221; actually downloads and installs adware on the user&#8217;s computer.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the rogue Facebook app will have automatically posted the same malware message to the Walls of the user&#8217;s Facebook friends. To make the message seem more legitimate, the rogue app adds the name of each Facebook friend to the bogus Wall posts.<\/p>\n<p>In a blog post about this attack Graham Cluley of Security firm Sophos \u00a0<a class=\"norm\" title=\"Distracting Beach Babes video attack hits Facebook users\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sophos.com\/blogs\/gc\/g\/2010\/05\/22\/distracting-beach-babes-video-attack-hits-facebook-users\/\">suggests<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i>If you have been hit, you should delete the offending message from your page, scan your computer with an up-to-date anti-virus, change your passwords, review your Facebook application settings (to ensure you have blocked the rogue application).<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Also, learn an important lesson: don&#8217;t be so quick to click on unsolicited links and approve unknown applications in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps most importantly, tell your friends to also do the same.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to Sophos, this attack is a \u00a0<a class=\"norm\" title=\"The sexiest video ever? Facebook users hit by Candid Camera Prank attack\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sophos.com\/blogs\/gc\/g\/2010\/05\/15\/sexiest-video-facebook-users-hit-candid-camera-attack\/\">new incarnation<\/a> \u00a0of the earlier &#8220;Candid Camera Prank&#8221; malware attack, which used very similar tactics.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Third Content Ad Responsive --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"1909104632\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- HS Net Bottom AdLinks --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\" data-ad-slot=\"1358951439\" data-ad-format=\"link\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/div>\n<p><\/br><\/br> Original Source : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/distracting-beach-babes-facebook-malware-attack\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/distracting-beach-babes-facebook-malware-attack\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook has been hit by a malware attack disguised as a video supposedly showing &#8220;Distracting Beach Babes&#8221;. The malware messages have been appearing on the Walls of many Facebook users. \u00a0 The messages, which look like they have been posted by friends of the Facebook user, feature a thumbnail of a woman&#8217;s bottom in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hoax-inggris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}