Facebook Sexy Candid Camera Prank
Written by admin on May 19, 2010 – 11:27 am -
Be aware of a new scam going on at Facebook. It seems some ingenious pranksters are finding a new way to make a few extra bucks off of teh millions of Facebook users. They have come up with a prank that downloads an app to your PC which will then spread to all of your contacts.
Security firms are warning Facebook users to beware of what’s being called the “Candid Camera Prank” attack recently spotted on Facebook that tries to use the lure of a sexy video of a scantily clad woman on a bicycle to download a video player that’s actually Hotbar adware, and maybe worse.
Websense and Sophos are among the security firms pointing out the dangers of the “sexiest video ever” trick, posted automatically on users’ profile pages, that shows a message posted on the walls of Facebook users, seemingly by their friends, of a movie thumbnail of a woman on a bicycle wearing a short skirt in a video entitled “Candid Camera Prank.”
Sophos researcher Graham Cluley, who blogged about the attack, writes, “If you click on the thumbnail, you don’t view a video at all but instead are taken to a Facebook application,” which tries to get each victim to download a video player that’s actually an application that will install the Hotbar adware “to generate revenue for the bad guys.” Thousands of Facebook users appear to have been fooled by the Candid Camera prank video lure.
You can read more about this Facebook prank and gets links to the Sophos blog were there is a demonstration video here.
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Tags: Candid Camera Prank, Facebook, scam, Sexiest Video
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