WARNING: There Is STILL No Way To See Who Viewed Your Facebook Profile
The false promise of being able to see who viewed users’ Facebook profiles is once again being used as bait on a phishing trip, as security firm Symantec reported in a blog post that this particular scam was designed to loosely resemble Facebook’s login page, but unsuspecting Web surfers will fall victim to the Infostealer strain of malware.
The false promise of being able to see who viewed users’ Facebook profiles is once again being used as bait on a phishing trip, as security firm Symantec reported in a blog post that this particular scam was designed to loosely resemble Facebook’s login page, but unsuspecting Web surfers will fall victim to the Infostealer strain of malware.
According to Symantec, the fake application promised users that they could view a list of other Facebook users who visited their profiles after installing the app, prompting them to either proceed with the install and inflict their devices with malware, or to enter their Facebook login credentials, after which they were directed to legitimate pages, but their information was compromised.
More details from the blog post follow:
Symantec analyzed the malware and found its behavior to be as follows:
- The malware consists of two executable files that both perform the same action.
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