There’s a great writeup on the Bobijou phishing scam over at Purple Car.

This scam popped up on Facebook this week. I saw it on my profile this morning. The scam looks harmless enough. A friend of yours has posted what appears to be a video of a laughing baby on your Facebook Wall. Clicking the link will trigger most modern browsers to throw up a phishing site warning.

Do not click on this link! Simply delete the post. Your friend is not a spammer. Their account was likely highjacked. Be a good friend. Tell them their account has been highjacked and encourage them to change their password, log out and back in under the new password.

TIP: Many of these scams originate in Eastern Europe and English is not their first language, hence the poor grammar and occasional misspellings.

According to CNET, criminals are using fake LinkedIn invite email to scam people into clicking links that lead to the Zeus botnet. The scam targets Windows users only and may be the first time the Zeus botnet has targeted LinkedIn users.

According to CNET, “Researchers saw tens of billions of messages related to the attack yesterday, Henry Stern, a senior security researcher at Cisco Systems, told CNET. “There have been some bursts today, but nothing like yesterday,” he said. “The botnet responsible for this is still in operation and it’s just doing something else right now.”

Two weeks ago, a particularly nasty scam made the rounds on Facebook and according to sources, has not been stopped by Facebook yet. It’s called, “WOW IT WORKS” and is delivered via Facebook’s Events app.

I myself, was hit by it on my own Facebook page. I hadn’t been on the page all day but started receiving dozens of texts from friends that I was spamming them.

Here’s how the scam seems to work:

1. A victim (in this case, me) is randomly chosen from Facebook. Well, not quite randomly. It seemed to target members with more than 1,000 friends.
2. The victim’s name is added to the WOW IT WORKS app as a creator on Facebook’s Developer section.
3. The victim’s name is used to send out an invite to a fake event called WOW IT WORKS. The invite is sent to all of the victim’s friends; in my case, over 1,300 people received the scam invite.
4. The victim’s name is shown on the event as “attending”.
5. The event location is a short URL to a scam Web site that will infect the user’s machine with malware.

TIP: Always check the link and reviews of any app before adding it. If an app has thousands of players, but only a few fans, or hundreds of negative reviews, it’s a scam. It did not come from your friend. Your friend’s account was either unknowingly compromised, or they were tricked by it as well.

 

Have you seen this scam on Facebook? How did you react?

The Stuxnet worm has been followed by several security experts for weeks now, but only this week are the results coming in and they aren’t good. The worm is far more advanced than anyone suspected. In fact, Roel Schouwenberg, a senior anti-virus researcher at Kaspersky said of the worm, “These guys are absolutely top of the line in terms of sophistication.”

According to Symantec:

Stuxnet has the ability to take advantage of the programming software to also upload its own code to the PLC in an industrial control system that is typically monitored by SCADA systems. In addition, Stuxnet then hides these code blocks, so when a programmer using an infected machine tries to view all of the code blocks on a PLC, they will not see the code injected by Stuxnet. Thus, Stuxnet isn’t just a rootkit that hides itself on Windows, but is the first publicly known rootkit that is able to hide injected code located on a PLC.

Read more at Krebs.