Yesterday, Facebook was hit by a yet another exploitation to its like buttons by some culprit who manage to inject a javascript hack to its Facebook like code making any user automatically like a certain page and have its URL posted on his/her wall wherever this worm is residing.
The modus operandi of this worm is it hides from an alluring page “Shocking! This girl killed herself after her dad posted this photo.” Once you visit that link, you will automatically like that page and your friends and any other visitor who clicks a link on your wall as well. Please be reminded that some are passing this as a spam message towards your facebook inbox, you shouldn’t click that link as well.
So far, there are no words if this worm will steal your facebook account or password. But you should take precaution about this threat because worms like this are like dormant-viruses and the developer of this hack is just waiting for the proper timing to launch an attack. The best way to prevent this one from infecting your account is not to click any link about it, and in case you were already infected. You can always delete the link manually posted on your wall to stop the spread of this exploitation immediately.
This reminded me of those old javascript exploitation we have on Friendster, wherein you can insert a javascript code on your profile so every user who visits your page will automatically invite you as their friend. Or that other one, wherein somone will install a javascipt worm on your comment section and anyone who visits it will transmit a virus to someone else’s account.
The nature of these worms are always a potential threat. Facebook should do a patch on their Facebook like buttons immediately. If these hackers can easily make you click a link and have you deliver to a certain website, what prevents them from doing this again but this time have you redirected to a malware-infested website?
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i bet it was the creater