Facebook Taking Action Against FBAction.net
A Facebook phishing attack by FBaction.net is happening . Facebook says they are taking all necessary action of the Fbaction.net phishing attack:
We are aware of this phishing domain and have already begun to take action. Specifically, we have passed the domain on to Markmonitor who pushes the domain to the browsers for blacklisting. They will also actively try to disable the site at the server/domain level for people who don’t have updated browsers.
Our user operations team has blocked the domain from being shared on Facebook and is removing the content retroactively from any messages. They will also be resetting passwords of senders to remove access from an attacker. We’re also reaching out to the ISPs to get information and will attempt to build a civil and/or criminal case against the owners.
Here’s a sample of the message that FBAction sends to facebook users:
YOURFRIEND sent
you a message.
Subject: Hello
“Visit http://www.facebook.com/l/4253f;http://fbaction.net/”
If you enter your details in the link, it will spam all your friends with the same message and link.
April 30th, 2009 at 11:37 am
Thanks for your informative concept
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May 7th, 2009 at 11:45 pm
I would hope they would go after these people. I have private information that I don’t want sold to another company. I can’t believe the nerve of some of these phishing companies.
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May 10th, 2009 at 2:47 am
That is a shame that people out there would do something like that. I feel bad for naive people to give out information about their account.
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May 31st, 2009 at 2:13 am
These phishing attacks are happening all over. I get at least three of these per week for banks, paypal, and other stuff. Arrest the people behind these things and it will stop if they face long prison sentences!
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