WARNING: Avoid (at All Costs) Sites that Promise to Let You Hack Other Facebook Users

Once again, Facebook users are reminded to stay very far away from websites and applications that claim to enable them to hack other users’ accounts, as Malwarebytes Labs , which reported on phishing site FBSniffing in June, unearthed two similar efforts: FBWand (no longer online at the time of this post) and Facebook Hacker.

RedExclamationMarkTriangle650Once again, Facebook users are reminded to stay very far away from websites and applications that claim to enable them to hack other users’ accounts, as Malwarebytes Labs , which reported on phishing site FBSniffing in June, unearthed two similar efforts: FBWand (no longer online at the time of this post) and Facebook Hacker.

Jovi Umawing of Malwarebytes Labs detailed how both bogus sites work in a blog post.

According to Umawing, now-offline FBWand appeared to have merely been a hoax.

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