Peaches Posted November 30, 2010 Report Share Posted November 30, 2010 Facebook used for phishing attacks and open redirects Recently, at Websense Security Labs, we have seen Facebook being used to display phishing pages for different services, as well as to redirect to phishing pages hosted elsewhere. The first email message appears to come from Facebook Security, and requests that users confirm their account. This is just like other phishing attacks we see every day. The twist here is that the phishing page itself gets loaded from within the Facebook site using an iframe. This makes it look much more legitimate than a site hosted on another domain. The second message is similar, but there's another URL towards the end. Clicking the link sends the user to www.facebook.com, where a script redirects the user to another Web site that contains the phishing page. More details plus screenshots here: http://community.websense.com/blogs/securitylabs/ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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