Linkin Park Facebook fanpage hacked and rolled
Posted by: Jon Ben-Mayor on 06/02/2014 08:14 AM
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If you are a fan of the band Linkin Park on Facebook beware of any links that you get from the page - it has apparently been hacked. The page began spewing out vulgar links to the over 62 Million fans since this morning. Perhaps 'hacked and trolled' would be more fitting as part of the headline since the spammy links seem to be rather infantile in nature rather than malicious - this time.
According to the post on the Bitdefender, Hot for Security blog, it appears that someone committed the crime by accessing Linkin Park’s Facebook account without authorization, it would have been much more worrying if the links had been deliberately crafted to appear as though they really did come from the band, and had directed fans to webpages that had attempted to infect their computers with malware or phish their login details.
For instance, it’s easy to imagine how an announcement of a free concert or a link to a previously-unreleased track could have sent millions of Linkin Park fans towards a boobytrapped webpage designed to plant malware onto their PCs.
But, lets not doubt for a second, that there is harm done by hacks like this.
So far, no reports have surfaced of any malware or the like being passed on, but it just goes to show how easy it would be to do exactly that...
If a Facebook post with a link looks out of place, or not the normal type post you expect to see from someone - treat it as suspicious and simply do not follow the link. Better safe than sorry.
According to the post on the Bitdefender, Hot for Security blog, it appears that someone committed the crime by accessing Linkin Park’s Facebook account without authorization, it would have been much more worrying if the links had been deliberately crafted to appear as though they really did come from the band, and had directed fans to webpages that had attempted to infect their computers with malware or phish their login details.For instance, it’s easy to imagine how an announcement of a free concert or a link to a previously-unreleased track could have sent millions of Linkin Park fans towards a boobytrapped webpage designed to plant malware onto their PCs.
But, lets not doubt for a second, that there is harm done by hacks like this.
So far, no reports have surfaced of any malware or the like being passed on, but it just goes to show how easy it would be to do exactly that...
If a Facebook post with a link looks out of place, or not the normal type post you expect to see from someone - treat it as suspicious and simply do not follow the link. Better safe than sorry.
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