Facebook users are being tempted to click on links to what purports to be a video of Osama bin Laden being shot, in the latest in a series of scams exploiting the hot news story of the Al Qaeda leader’s death.
The messages appear as follows:
Watch the Osama Shoot down video
Osama Dead – Censored …
A weekend of Click-jacking on Facebook
In this blog post, I will analyze a Facebook scam technique that we’ve seen grow in popularity over the past few weeks, but let’s focus on one example that was circulating this past weekend. As a Websense customer, if you are running our Web Security Software or real-time analytics, your users would have been protected from …