"Adult" Lure Hitting European Facebook Users
Posted by: Timothy Weaver on 10/17/2016 11:54 AM
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An adult video scam is moving westward. First discovered by Kaspersky Lab, the scam first appeared in Russian Facebook accounts. It is now showing up in Europe.
The scam is a fake Facebook that posts a link to an “18+” video, supposedly available on YouTube. The unsuspecting victims are also lured in by fraudulent likes from the compromised account-holder's list of friends.
If a victim clicks on the link, it takes them to a YouTube look-alike page that is on a malicious domain. The victim is then instructed to install a browser extension. That is the payload. The extension “gains rights to read all the data in the browser, which the fraudsters can later use to get all the passwords, logins, credit card details and other confidential user information that is entered."
Source: SCMagazinea
The scam is a fake Facebook that posts a link to an “18+” video, supposedly available on YouTube. The unsuspecting victims are also lured in by fraudulent likes from the compromised account-holder's list of friends.If a victim clicks on the link, it takes them to a YouTube look-alike page that is on a malicious domain. The victim is then instructed to install a browser extension. That is the payload. The extension “gains rights to read all the data in the browser, which the fraudsters can later use to get all the passwords, logins, credit card details and other confidential user information that is entered."
Source: SCMagazinea
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