A computer security company requested for Facebook to install an early warning system after hundreds of thousands of users have fake sex video attack. British antivirus company Sophos warned users that the biggest social networking pages to be alert to the post titled "distracting beach babes" that contains icons bikini-clad women movies.
In a press statement, Sophos said that the icon appeared as though sent by a friend of a Facebook user. Asked the recipient to click the small icon.
By clicking the icon, users are taken to a Facebook application that informs that they do not have the right software to play the video. Facebook users had 'cheated' to install a software package that automatically install, shows, and download ads into a user's computer. Video link was then distributed to the entire network.
According to Sophos, hundreds of thousands of Facebook users have received the video icon at the weekend. A similar trick on Facebook a week never happened before with the video "the sexiest video ever."
"It's time for Facebook to install an early warning system in their network, so that they can be warned about 500 million users about possible threats when it happened," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos. "Unless (Facebook) do something, do not
surprising if the big attack came again this weekend, which happens to thousands of users. "
In a press statement, Sophos said that the icon appeared as though sent by a friend of a Facebook user. Asked the recipient to click the small icon.
By clicking the icon, users are taken to a Facebook application that informs that they do not have the right software to play the video. Facebook users had 'cheated' to install a software package that automatically install, shows, and download ads into a user's computer. Video link was then distributed to the entire network.
According to Sophos, hundreds of thousands of Facebook users have received the video icon at the weekend. A similar trick on Facebook a week never happened before with the video "the sexiest video ever."
"It's time for Facebook to install an early warning system in their network, so that they can be warned about 500 million users about possible threats when it happened," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos. "Unless (Facebook) do something, do not
surprising if the big attack came again this weekend, which happens to thousands of users. "
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