Facebook hits new spyware fraud

Hackers, a social networking site will bypass captcha
Plans to create a new account.

Facebook on Thursday was hit with yet another attack on spyware.

This time the hackers, is to manage security crack captcha
- Combination of words or characters, the user asked
Re-enter during registration - to create a new Facebook account
Information designed to steal account and personal users.

Roger Thompson, AVG Technologies, research director at the company
Blog post Thursday morning, details of this latest scam.
He is the new tactic, "one of the first case and said no
First time "is, hackers, Facebook was able to breach the security of
The CAPTCHA.

"We are all different from the profile to see many of these
However, the same images and links, "Thompson said." I'm sure
Facebook to disable all these accounts as soon as you register, the
To find them, finding them is not easy. "

Facebook Simon's spokesman Axten InternetNews.com
Working to identify all of the social networking site fake
They resigned to disable the account.

"URL, which is already included in the profile
Block from the major Web browsers are black and
Share on Facebook, "he said." We are looking into how
The account has been created, it is very likely to sign up
Process was manual or persons behind the attack
captcha has been cultivated by humans to solve the price. "

Axten Facebook using an external company using CAPTCHA
ReCaptcha is a security feature. ReCaptcha was acquired
Google is at the end of last month, Facebook has said height,
Site is considered a provider, including Ticketmaster.com.

Facebook and more than 300 people to register some 100 million people
The attack was a stranger to the rapid increase social
Networking in the past few years.

So-called "419" scam with a series called, Facebook has been used
, Associated with all methods, such as hacking scheme
Month when the two attacks, and the group was hijacked by spammers Facebook
Than 150 million users.

Websense has reported last month of 95 Sekyuritisofutoueabenda
Blog percent on the user generated comments, message boards
What is spam, including chat rooms and links to malicious code.

"In terms of education, we encourage users not to click
If you feel that the proper steps bizarre links
And computer, Facebook accounts are at risk of Axten.