Thursday, February 28, 2013

Hacks, Hijacks and Hunts for Chinese Data Thieves

Still smarting from a recent attack on its systems, Facebook started its week with a discovery by researchers at Bitdefender that an infected add-on at the Chrome Web Store was planting malware on its members' computers. The malware, among other things, was padding the Like counts on dummy Facebook pages. Once the pages, which are often completely devoid of content, rack up enough Likes, their creators can sell them on the black market.

Source: http://ectnews.com.feedsportal.com/c/34520/f/632000/s/28ee5f02/l/0L0Stechnewsworld0N0Crsstory0C773840Bhtml/story01.htm

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