Rihanna Featured In Latest Facebook Sex-Tape Hoax

The latest sex-tape hoax to flood Facebook uses Rihanna as bait, but the Facebook Security team is already on the job, blocking the links contained in the hoax messages, which were reported as malicious.

The latest sex-tape hoax to flood Facebook uses Rihanna as bait, but the Facebook Security team is already on the job, blocking the links contained in the hoax messages, which were reported as malicious.

Sophos’ Naked Security blog reported on the Rihanna sex-tape hoax, saying that it was spread in the form of invitations to events, which read:

[VIDEO] RIHANNA SEX TAPE

I lost all respect for her after watching this >>

The scam event invitations then included a link made to resemble a Yahoo link, but y.ahoo

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