Seems the past few days I have been hounded by Facebook spam, and not just the type from Farmville or Mafia wars requiring more manure or glocks (am I even saying that right). Back in the day, MySpace and Friendster both didn’t have any of this… then it was all they had (but I sure thought all those friendly ladies were really interested in me, especially when my only photo was a picture of the earth from space). In my view, the spambots were the start of the end for those sites. Now, Facebook seems to be catching them relatively quickly, so maybe they can prevent the takeover. But I wonder how much of their growth is real and what the spambots will do to the current user base.
Oh and sorry for the spotty posting.
We’re all well aware of Twitter spam accounts but these are gradually turning nastier and nastier. They started out with – usually – pictures of nubile young women whose profile link might lead you to some nefarious site. But now they are starting to embed payloads in these links while @’ing random Twitter users to catch their attention. The link in the post above is blurred, but leads on to a site hosting some JavaScript. As security analysts trendmicro points out, if this JavaScript is executed by the browser, an “unpleasant payload” is delivered to the user’s PC.
