The Facebook credentials (e-mail addresses and passwords) stolen by an Israeli hacker, who calls himself Hannibal online, last week were in the order of tens of thousands. Although he claimed to have posted some 185,000 stolen accounts, it turned out he had posted fewer than 50,000. Furthermore, Facebook today confirmed…
Anonymous: Facebook is next, on January 28
In a YouTube video that appears to be linked to a known Anonymous account, the hacker collective offers a linked program in order to attack Facebook. View full post on anonymous hacker – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
Free Amazon.com gift card promotion is a Facebook scam
Gift card scams are a common sight on Facebook, and this weekend it has been the turn of Amazon.com to be the brand used by cybercriminals as a way of making them cash. View full post on Naked Security – Sophos View full post on National Cyber Security
Israeli hacker posts ‘100,000’ more stolen Facebook logins
Israeli hacker Hannibal claims to have stolen another 100,000 Facebook logins from Arab users of the social network. A quick analysis shows that the number is actually closer to 20,000 accounts. View full post on facebook hacker – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
Israeli hacker steals 85,000 Facebook logins from Arabs
In case you’ve been sleeping under a rock (or were understandably distracted by what Anonymous is up to), you may not know that Israel and Saudi Arabia are currently in the middle of a hacker war. In addition to millions of e-mail accounts, bank accounts, and credit cards, information from…
Hacker publishes waves of Facebook logins
Threatens to reveal more, and financial details View full post on bank security hacker – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
Facebook users targeted in Carberp man-in-the-browser attack
Facebook users are being targeted in a new man-in-the-browser (MitB) attack that attempts to steal money by duping the user into redeeming an e-cash voucher. The malware is a new configuration of the Carberp Trojan, according to security firm Trusteer. Carberp replaces any Facebook page the user navigates to with…
Facebook exposes hackers behind ‘Koobface’ computer worm
London, Jan 18 (ANI): Facebook has publicly identified a gang of five cyber criminals it believes to be behind Koobface computer worm, a piece of malicious software that attacked hundreds of thousands of computers through the social network's profiles. View full post on computer worm – Yahoo! News Search Results…
Koobface Gang That Spread Worm on Facebook Operates in the Open
The Koobface gang, a Russian-based group, has grown wealthy by apparently spreading a computer worm on Facebook and other social networks and cashing in on various schemes. View full post on computer worm – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security » Virus/Malware/Worms
Facebook to name and shame Russian Koobface gang
Facebook could be about to take the unprecedented step of distributing the names of the Russians it believes were behind the Koobface worm that waged an infamous botnet campaign against the site’s users from 2008 onwards. A report in the New York Times said that Facebook would today start circulating…