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Facebook Typosquatting Leads to Phishing Websites A typosquatting experiment revealed that a popular social media website can be utilized by hackers and other evildoers to profit from the average Internet user's mistakes. Highly popular websites such as Facebook are taken advantage of in any way possible by cybercriminals who want to steal our digital assets a...	27 October 2011 09:21 GMT

Facebook Features Abused to Hide Location of Phishing URLs Researchers from security vendor Websense warn that Facebook's features are abused by attackers to craft believable email phishing attacks that target its own users.The fake emails purport to come from the Facebook Security team and warn users that their accounts will be deactivated because of abusive actions."Y...	30 November 2010 10:28 GMT

Facebook Phishing on the Rise Security researchers from German antivirus vendor Avira warn that the number of phishing attacks targeting Facebook users has increased by almost 64% in July, pushing the website in second place on the list of most phished brands.According to statistics compiled by Avira, even though phishing activity targeting PayPa...	20 August 2010 06:16 GMT

Yahoo! Messenger Users Phished for Facebook Credentials Security researchers report on a new phishing campaign that circulates on Yahoo! Messenger and is instrumented with the help of hijacked accounts. A spammed rogue video link takes users to a fake Facebook login page.The new attack was discovered by researchers from enterprise software giant CA. "While using Yahoo Mes...	14 December 2009 06:35 GMT

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