•  21/03/2010

New Facebook password stealing email

I think this time hackers and spammer find their new destination and it is the most popular social network of the web. After Twitter, Facebook is suffering from new Password email stealing mails from unknown people.

The suspicious email tells the facebook genuine recipient that Your password has been reset and Ask you to click on the attached hyperlink to get new login details and this link redirects to the bad site which install harmful virus on your system.

Facebooks asked users to ignore such mails and inform their friends about this new stealing attempt.

Dave Marcus, McAfee’s director of malware research and communications, said that he expects the hackers will succeed in infecting millions of computers.

Well last week FB crossed Google in web ranking so you can expect its a golden mine for hackers.

Our Expert Advice on this matter- I request all users to check email header. It gives many information about sender id, server host name and other info. This can help you to become more safer.

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4 Responses to “New Facebook password stealing email”

  1. Thanks for the security warning

  2. Siddhu says:

    This scam was really bugging… many users had been involved in it…

  3. TechChunks says:

    Amazing how hackrs love services like Twitter and Facebook (due to their popularity), isn’t it? :P

  4. Ramkumar says:

    I got a facebook reset password email to my account, however gmail spammed it .

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