from TrendLabs | Malware Blog - by Trend Micro by Christopher Talampas (Fraud Analyst) Recently, while chatting with someone on
Facebook, one of my friends surprised me when she sent me this:
Out of curiosity and suspicion, I visited the link. This eventually led me to the following site, which was hosted at
http://{BLOCKED}atingchatnetwork.com/facebook/index.php.
Users who input their
Facebook credentials here would be surrendering their credentials to phishers. Phishing attacks such as this that use
Facebook applications are not entirely new but having it spread via
Facebook’s own chat feature makes it a more significant threat. The appearance of these messages coming from a user’s friends may lead to more people clicking these links.
The
Facebook application used in this attack has already been removed. The underlying phishing page has also been blocked by the
Trend Micro™ Smart Protection Network™.
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TrendLabs | Malware Blog - by Trend Micro
Phishing Proliferating via Facebook Chat
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