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Just a warning...

http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2010/05/22/distracting-beach-babes-video-attack-hits-facebook-users/

Distracting Beach Babes video attack hits Facebook users

Thousands of Facebook users are reporting that they have been hit by a malware attack posing as a video of young bikini-clad women on a beach.

The messages are posted on the walls of Facebook members, seemingly from their friends and associates on the site, with a thumbnail which appears to be an image of a young woman's bottom in a bikini.

The messages read:

<name>, this is hilarious! lol :P :P :P Distracting Beach Babes [HQ] Length: 5:32

The "Distracting Beach Babes" scam appears to be the latest incarnation of the widespread "Sexiest Video Ever" assault we saw spreading on Facebook last weekend, installing adware onto victims' computers which can make money for the hackers behind the attack.

And you shouldn't be in any doubt as to how successful a scheme like this can be. Many Facebook users are all-too-comfortable with receiving salacious videos and humourous links from their friends, and will click on them without a moment's thought. Unfortunately that can then begin a bombardment of malicious posts to their social networking contacts - do you really want a blitz like this unleashed in your name?

Fortunately, some Facebook users are using the medium to warn each other of the threat:

Warnings posted about the Distracting beach babes video attack

If you have been hit, you should delete the offending message from your page, scan your computer with an up-to-date anti-virus, change your passwords, review your Facebook application settings. Also, learn an important lesson: don't be so quick to click on unsolicited links and approve unknown applications in the future.

Perhaps most importantly, tell your friends to also do the same.

I'm beginning to wonder if the cybercriminals deliberately launch these campaigns on the weekends, imagining that anti-virus researchers and Facebook's own security team might be snoozing.

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a mate of mine got some virus off of FB a month or so ago, & it was a proper bad one & he had to restore to factory settings, thus he lost loads of stuff.

i read this a few weeks ago though :hahaha:

A malevolently clever 'porn virus' has hit video games file-sharers.

The Malware infects PCs that use certain file-sharing sites (ready for this?) - publishing their full internet history online and demanding a £10 (1,500 Yen) credit card payment to take it down.

The Japanese trojan virus - named Kenzero - is reportedly targeting illegal downloaders of video games in the explicit Japanese Hentai genre.

You can imagine what fans of these have in their internet history list...

It masquerades as a game installation screen and requests personal details - all the while taking a screen grab of the victim's internet history. It also obtains details of their operating system, clipboard content, file use history and Internet Explorer favourites.

According to blog CounterMeasures: 'The email comes from a company calling themselves "Romancing Inc" (who coincidentally also own the domain where the stolen information has been published) and they alert the unfortunate mark to the predicament offering to resolve the "copyright infringement" and get the information removed... For a fee.'

Japanese website Yomiuri claims that 5,500 people have so far admitted to being infected.

The poor beggars... What will they tell their wives...

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I got this..

My mate was sleeping round mine yesterday and she got it first from someone we hardly ever speak to. Then 5 minutes later I got it off someone who doesn't even know my name.. We tried clicking on it just cause we felt like it. My iPod was playing up though, because my mate was on her iPod, I was on mine and my mum on the laptop.. So it didn't work.. Am I safe..?

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I got this..

My mate was sleeping round mine yesterday and she got it first from someone we hardly ever speak to. Then 5 minutes later I got it off someone who doesn't even know my name.. We tried clicking on it just cause we felt like it. My iPod was playing up though, because my mate was on her iPod, I was on mine and my mum on the laptop.. So it didn't work.. Am I safe..?

maybe, dunno about laptop, if you do have it it will send messages out to all your friends on your profile.

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John, thanks for posting this. I've had a few messages from so called FB friends (since deleted) urging me to click onto both these links, although I never did. I'll be sure to delete them all. Once again many thanks. :evil:

Its probably not your friends faults.... They most probably clicked the link themselves and then its autonomously posted it others in there friends list. Wouldn't delete any friends, as they're probably not aware its gone to you.

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i got the vid from some silly fat twat who was in my year at school. i always had the feeling that he was a bit 'special', if you know what i mean. he always seems to do daft quizzes and dating shite all the time, so i'm not suprised it came from him. might delete him.

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Got loads of info on this from friends on FB last night. It seems the hackers are able to 'harvest' friend lists. As previous posters have suggested, it then seems as though the message has come from one of the friends on your list when it fact the chances are that it hasnt. Seems to have gone away now, at least for the moment but remember not to open any dodgy looking messages/links especially at weekends. I think John may be right when he says the hackers are trying to catch FB security napping. :x

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a girl i quite fancy got her old profile hacked a few weeks ago. i re-added her new one and it was a chance to talk, i think she might like me. or possibly not.

Awww. I've been reduced to pretending to accidently text this guy who has pretty much blocked me on facebook and msn. Still hasn't worked. I thought he liked me too.. Well, that was Febuary..

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My friend has got himself a bunnyboiler girlfriend... she kinda scares me. She'll give me evils but then come over and be all nice.

On topic... yeah I probably wouldn't click on the link because I never watch videos people link me to.

'Forget happiness I'm fine, I'll forget everything in time'

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this girl i like messaged me, i would be sad if she blocked me. i guess i tread carefully in things like this, possibly a little too careful for my own good. but if something ever came of it, he'd be the only spammer/hacker i'd ever have time for. for about 5 minutes.

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