WARNING: Facebook Hoaxes Take Paranormal Turns
If your Facebook News Feed is beginning to resemble a horror film festival, the real horrors are the hoaxes, scams, and malware contained within.
If your Facebook News Feed is beginning to resemble a horror film festival, the real horrors are the hoaxes, scams, and malware contained within.
Malwarebytes reported on an epidemic of hoaxes with paranormal themes making their way around Facebook, including:
- Alleged footage of an “actual” ghost attack.
- A video featuring the Aswang, which Malwarebytes described as “a mythical shape-shifting were-dog/vampire/terrifying thing from the Philippines.”
- Mermaids.
- A huge great white shark tearing apart a sea captain.
According to Malwarebytes, users who click on the scam videos suffer various fates, including being asked to download or install updates to video players, which actually install malware.
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