14 DAY TRIAL // A spam campaign that’s currently making the rounds is designed to trick Facebook customers into clicking on links that point to a malicious website.
The well-designed phony Facebook emails inform recipients of the following: “[Name] has confirmed that you’re friends on Facebook.”
When unsuspecting internauts click on the buttons contained in the emails, they’re taken to a malicious website that’s set up to leverage an old Adobe Reader vulnerability in an effort to push malware, Dancho Danchev reports.
Users are advised to be cautious when receiving such emails. Make sure the buttons and the links contained in them genuinely point to Facebook by hovering over them with the mouse.
Also, make sure that your operating system and applications are up to date. Most of these attacks don’t work if all your software is updated.