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Facebook suffers hack attack | | 2008/08/27 | | Social networking giant Facebook has recently acknowledged that its popularity has led to it being subjected to spam, phishing attacks and worm viruses just as the membership has topped the 100 million active-user milestone.
In the last week, many Facebook users have contacted the International Herald Tribune to report that their accounts had been hi-jacked and, in some cases, deactivated.
However, a company statement from Facebook was reassuring. It said: "Over the past few days, we have received reports from users of spam and phishing attacks; we have also detected and contained a worm.
"We are investigating every report, removing false content, blocking bogus links and addressing the concerns of our users and these efforts have limited the affected users to a small percentage of those on Facebook."
A worm known as Koobface is thought to have been present since July and is now believed by Kaspersky Lab to have 27 different strains.
Senior technology consultant with the security firm David Emm said: "It is very similar to a lot of the old worms.
"Like many other viruses and worms, Koobface relies on what is known as "social engineering" techniques which attempt to trick people into performing actions that will expose them unwittingly to a virus."
He went on to say that people using social networking sites may be particularly at risk because they would not expect a message from someone they know to act as a vehicle for a virus. |
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