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Change your Facebook page colour...it's a scam

Posted by Phil Voice on August 7, 2014 at 12:13pm in Social Media

Beware this Facebook scam that's already hacked into 10,000 Facebook accounts.

From the Guardian:

A Facebook app offering to change the colour of Facebook’s profile page and header scams users, hacking into their Facebook account and computer.

The scam tricks users into downloading an app called “Facebook colour changer”, which promises to change the characteristic blue colour of Facebook’s header and interface to one of nine other colours including pink, purple, green, yellow, orange and black.

The app is nothing but a trick to compromise a user’s Facebook account, according to researchers from Chinese internet security firm Cheeta Mobile.

“Once clicked, it leads users to a phishing website,” Cheeta Mobile said in a blogpost. “This issue seems to be happening due to a vulnerability that lives in Facebook’s app page itself, allowing hackers to implant viruses and malicious code into Facebook-based applications directing users to phishing sites.”

Read detail here: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/aug/07/facebook-profile-colour-scam

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