Facebook apps used for phishing
- http://blog.trendmic...d-for-phishing/
Aug. 19, 2009 - "It would be easy to think that once someone has logged in successfully to Facebook—and not a phishing site—that the security threat is largely gone. However, that’s not quite the case, as we’ve seen before*. Earlier this week, however, Trend Micro... found at least two—if not more—malicious applications on Facebook. (These were the Posts and Stream applications.) They were used for a phishing attack that sent users to a known phishing domain, with a page claiming that users need to enter their login credentials to use the application. The messages appear as notifications in a target user’s -legitimate- Facebook profile... While Trend Micro has informed Facebook of these findings, users should still exercise caution when entering login credentials. They should be doubly sure that these are being entered into legitimate sites, and not carefully crafted phishing sites..."
* http://blog.trendmicro.com/?s=Koobface
(Screenshots available at the URL at the top listed above.)