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Thursday, 14 September 2017

Facebook video scam continues spreading undetected


Facebook and Google Docs continue to be used by scammers as a delivery channel for malware and adware.


In October 2016, Facebook users were sent the links to supposedly adult videos [1] that can be played from a fake Youtube portal only when a target downloads and install the malicious Video Plugin.

In August 2017, the same attack vector is used to spread adware [2].

And today, I saw the following message on my Facebook arrived from the hacked mobile Facebook app of one of my students in past. In addition to the message, I and other victim’s friends were marked in the comment to the post with a fake video.