Automated attacks push malware on Facebook Hackers have figured out how to create computer-generated Facebook profiles and are using them to trick unsuspecting users into installing malware, a security researcher warned Thursday. The fraudulent profiles display the same picture of a blond-haired, blue-eyed woman, but with slightly different names and birthdates, said …
"There are enough of them that it's probably an indication of an automated attack," Thompson told The Reg. "I just can't see someone creating the same profile time after time after time."
But can you see 10 people in India creating profiles all day for 5 bucks a day? Cause I sure can.
I have someone, who I've not heard of, with no mutual friends, although some friends from the same area, talking in all mobile phone illiterate talk, asking me if I am from my home town. On replying that I was, a week or so later, she replies saying she is looking for <my display name> from my home town, again in mobile talk.
I was highly doubtful before I read this article.. Just wondering if this the format of these approaches?
``attackers have figured out how to crack the captcha Facebook uses [sic] to ensure profiles are created by humans, rather than computer scripts that automate the process so it can be carried out thousands of times."
Attackers break captchas? Why not simply write a great porn site and require captchas-per-movie?
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