E-mail scams targeting users of social media sites like Twitter and Facebook are blurring the lines between traditional phishing attacks and those designed to plant password-stealing malicious software on the victim's PC. For the past week, scammers have been blasting out e-mails that at first glance appear to be run-of-the-mill phishing scams aimed at stealing user names and passwords from Facebook users. The messages urge recipients to "update" their information by clicking a provided link and entering their Facebook user ...
E-mail scams targeting users of social media sites like Twitter and Facebook are blurring the lines between traditional phishing attacks and those designed to plant password-stealing malicious software on the victim's PC. For the past week, scammers have been blasting out e-mails that at first glance appear to be run-of-the-mill phishing scams aimed at stealing user names and passwords from Facebook users. The messages urge recipients to "update" their information by clicking a provided link and entering their Facebook user name and password at a counterfeit Facebook login page. Facebook users who fall for the ruse are "logged in" to the fake Facebook page and then prompted to install a "Facebook Update Tool," which is in fact a copy of the Zeus password stealing Trojan. A study released in October found that 54 percent of U.S. companies have banned workers from using social networking sites. The author of that survey
