Try not to laugh xD: Worm spreads via Facebook status messages
May 21, 2010 by admin
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A clickjacking worm spread quickly across Facebook earlier today, tricking users into posting it to their status updates.
The worm, which some have dubbed Fbhole because of the domain it points to, posts a message like the following:
try not to laugh xD http://www.fbhole.com/omg/allow.php?s=a&r=<random number>
Clicking on the link would display a fake error message that would trick you – through a clickjacking exploit – to invisibly push a button that would publish the same message to your own Facebook status update. We’ve seen clickjacking exploited by hackers before in attacks on social networks, for instance in the “Don’t click” attack seen on Twitter in early 2009.
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What did this actual worm do to the user? Does it infect their system? I am just reading up as i recently had one, so apologies for the newb question!
@Banksy, it sounds like it didn’t really do anything malicious. Probably the offline equivalent of getting eggs thrown at your house on Halloween. If all we had to worry about were worms/viruses of this sort (pranks, really), we’d have a much easier time of keeping our computers safe while online.
This kind of stuff will always be there. As long as the perpetrator is not trying to do harm, I think a good laugh is all the attention I’ll give it. If it crosses the line into criminal behavior, well that’s another story.