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‘Jacked Frost’ Facebook Scam Goes Wild and Doubles Over the Weekend

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Last week we wrote a blog about a specific Facebook scam that appeared to spread rather aggresively. We have decided to nickname the scam “Jacked frost”. The Websense® ThreatSeeker™ network detected that the scam has increased and multiplied over the weekend – particularly on Saturday where we saw the amount of unique URLs related to this scam double. This shows how cyber crooks time their attacks to times where users are more laid back and when the security community is less likely to alert users on this type of threat.

 

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Christmas-Themed Facebook Scams: How Cybercrooks Kick it up a Notch and Piggyback on Big Brands

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From time to time the Websense® ThreatSeeker™ Network detects high volume surges of badness rolling across Facebook. In the past 48 hours we’ve seen a rapid increase of a particular scam campaign that has aggressively spread through the world’s largest social networking site. 

 

With the holiday shopping season here, it appears that cyber crooks are going full throttle to attract Christmas shoppers by piggybacking on the reputation of well-known brands like Walmart, Asda, Visa, Best Buy, Apple, and more. In the attack that we’re about to describe, it appears that user accounts belonging to the free DNS service freedns.afraid.org were compromised and used as part of the cyber criminals’ scam infrastructure. Read on for details.

 

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