WARNING: Facebook Color Changer App Will Only Turn Victims Bright Red
What’s wrong with Facebook blue, anyway? The promise of changing the colors of users’ Facebook profiles is once again being used to bait victims of the scam into installing malware, according to Cheetah Mobile.
What’s wrong with Facebook blue, anyway? The promise of changing the colors of users’ Facebook profiles is once again being used to bait victims of the scam into installing malware, according to Cheetah Mobile.
Victims who click to install the Facebook Color Changer application are actually rerouted to a phishing site, and Cheetah Mobile described what happens next:
The phishing site has two ways or attacking consumers. The first is stealing the users’ Facebook access tokens by asking them to view a color changer tutorial video.
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