"Lulzsec arrested in london picture" a new scam on facebook
Lulzsec is the hot topic on the cyber world and after the rumers of yesterday when british police calimed to arrest the mastermaind of the hacker group, scammers are trying to spread spams by taking the advantage of people's interest in this group.
Rogue messages posted on the social networking site yesterday read "The Creator of LulzSec arrested in London (PHOTO TAKEN BY THE POLICE) SEE THE PICTURE WITHOUT BLURRING, SHARE THIS PAGE AND LIKE IT !! http://bit.ly/[censored]"
The post also show the blurrd image and linked to the article about the arrest on Sophos' Naked Security blog. This is done to exploit the trust of users on the security blog.
After the clicking on the link it asks users for sharing and liking in order to see the uncensored image and lead user to a third party website and forced to download a program iLividSetupV1.exe that attempted to install a series of toolbars.
"Presumably whoever is behind this Facebook scam (and I doubt it is anyone connected with LulzSec) is earning commission the more people they convince to install the software," says Sophos senior technology consultant Graham Cluley.
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