The "Data Snatchers" have found a way to automate the creation of Facebook accounts, according to Roger Thompson at security software company AVG.
This means they've found a way to bypass the Facebook
Captcha (the image of letters which are required for a new account,
which are supposed to ensure that a human is involved). The result is
that they have created automated attacks coming from Facebook.
Thompson found a series of identical Facebook profiles which contained the same picture
of a woman. Click on the picture (and probably on other things in the
profile) and you see a typical fake anti-malware, or scareware, attack.
As Thompson says, Facebook will kill them off as they find them, but
they can't be easy to find and now there will be a lot of them.
Originally posted to the PCMag.com security blog, Security Watch. Automated Facebook Attack underway - AVG Blogs | Roger Thompson
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