Recently, the social network has a fake application that collects user input Facebook, according to researchers Symantec.
Members raised video called “Sudden tornado while playing football” or “Video: The best April Fool’s joke!”, Click on the message, thereby provoking the beginning of the automatic downloading the script, which throws them out of Facebook, and then displays an error message and invites you to log in again to continue:
Fake Facebook application collects user data
Clicking on promoting the emergence of a registration form, which looks quite authentic.
“When a user enters the input data and clicks on the button” enter “, a fake application sends two POST-request: one on Facebook.com, and the other to a malicious server,” – explains the researcher.
The application also automatically publishes the same message that attracted the user in his profile to his “friends” have seen this message and is also likely to fall for it.
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