According to this web news, the latest phishing attack on Facebook can affect 200million Facebook users worldwide. Given to how this phishing attack is being done, I wouldn’t doubt the figure at all.

This phishing attack starts as a simple email message with a simple “Hello” title which draws attention easily. A link is accompanied with the email, easily identified with a non-Facebook domain name link, such as areps.at, kirgo.at…etc. Once the user clicked on the link, they will be greeted with a Facebook-like login screen. Visual wise there are no difference from the Facebook.com login screen, except for the address bar which I believe not many people aware that. After the user has entered the username and password, the phishing site will retrieve the user’s contact. And similar email with the correspondence link will be sent to all of them. How virulent it can be!

Word of advice, DON’T simply click on any link from email messages, the same goes for instant messages(MSN, Yahoo, Skype..etc). And if you did accidentally click on any link, and it request for you login details, ignore it(this includes all internet services like internet banking for example). And lastly, have a better common sense and be extra careful of what you click especially when you surfing po…..aHemmm….

<< back

No Comments yet »