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Facebook and trouble: oh we are so used to hearing these two words in the same sentence!

After a lot of drama over privacy matters of Facebook users, the social networking site is back to where it needed more attention - malware attacks. These kind of attacks seem to be pretty common these days on Facebook, and a rising share of success of these attacks could be attributed to the lack of attention from Facebook users. Everyone, especially we at Firstain, are trying our best to inform Facebook-ers about new attacks on the social network and the least we hope from you is to be less careless, follow recommended action and protect yourself.

In the latest of the attacks doing the rounds, people are sent a video clip to watch - titled "Most Hilarious Video" attempting to view which can land you in deep trouble. Here's one of the common notifications you might have got (or may get) from your friends: "This is (without a doubt) the most hilarious video ever! LOL!". If you see such a notification, then please do not click on it. It is a scam, a malware attack to obtain personal information from you. It takes your login details through a phishing scam as well as installs harmful malware on your PC.

Websense describes the act: "Once you click on the link to view the video you are taken to a fake Facebook login page where you are tricked into entering your credentials. The login page look like the real thing except of course if you look at the address bar you can see that you're not on facebook.com. But users can easily be tricked into thinking that they temporarily were logged out of Facebook and to continue they have to login."

”Regardless of what you enter in the login form you are then taken to a page on the real Facebook site that asks you to allow the application to access your profile. If you allow that you’re taken to a page saying that you need to upload your FLV Player to view the video. Downloading this further infects your computer, and can prompt more ways to get you to give out private information.”

We request you to not click on any such link and take necessary action to protect yourself from such attacks.

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