Hacked Facebook applications reach out to exploit sites in Russia – AVG Blogs | Roger Thompson
Hacked Facebook applications reach out to exploit sites in Russia
All the social networking sites have issues with calling out to exploit pages. Usually what happens is that someone’s website gets hacked, and because they link to it from their MySpace or Facebook page, their contacts and friends sometimes get drawn to the attack sites. This is quite common, and we’ll write about it soon, but today’s story is a little different, in that these seem to be actual Facebook applications that have been hacked. (Please note that the application developer(s) are innocent victims too, and did not intend for their games to be hacked.)
The first one we noticed was CityFireDepartment, which seems to be a sort of online game that allows a player to become a fireman. (Please DO NOT GO to this application until it is cleaned up).
Initially, we thought that the applications were deliberately acting as lures, but it now seems to us that they are victims themselves. The difficult part for them will be to find and plug the hole that the DataSnatchers are using to hack the applications.
The other applications where we have detected the hack include (we don’t include direct links to them in order to save you):
- MyGirlySpace
- Ferrarifone
- Mashpro
- Mynameis
- Pass-it-on
- Fillinthe
- Aquariumlife
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