Graham Cluley's Blog reports thousands of Facebook users have woken up to discover messages posted on their walls, seemingly by their Facebook friends.
The messages read:
<name>, this is without doubt the sexiest video ever!
accompanied by what appears to be a video with the title "Candid Camera Prank [HQ]". The message has what appears to be a movie thumbnail of a woman on a bicycle wearing a short skirt, and the video's length is given as 3:17.
Now, maybe you're in the habit of sharing and receiving videos like this with your online chums. I can certainly imagine a lot of blokes in particular might be tempted to play the video. Each to his or her own, but you should be extremely careful on this occasion.
Because if you click on the thumbnail you don't view a video at all, but are instead taken to a Facebook application. When I tried for myself the application failed to run (maybe Facebook has already taken action?), but according to reports from...
Facebook Sexy Video attack
The messages read:
<name>, this is without doubt the sexiest video ever!
accompanied by what appears to be a video with the title "Candid Camera Prank [HQ]". The message has what appears to be a movie thumbnail of a woman on a bicycle wearing a short skirt, and the video's length is given as 3:17.
Now, maybe you're in the habit of sharing and receiving videos like this with your online chums. I can certainly imagine a lot of blokes in particular might be tempted to play the video. Each to his or her own, but you should be extremely careful on this occasion.
Because if you click on the thumbnail you don't view a video at all, but are instead taken to a Facebook application. When I tried for myself the application failed to run (maybe Facebook has already taken action?), but according to reports from...
Facebook Sexy Video attack