Image via CrunchBaseMany people must be sick of witnessing shady posts on your homepage by your Facebook friends? According to a recent investigation by AVG Technologies, it has been revealed that Facebook users are being exposed to a very large increase in the PUS, potentially unwanted sites, in the past entire year. It was stated in the report of the investigation that “These sites typically lure victims by pretending to offer ‘seedy’ or perhaps morbid video with titles such as ‘OMG, you won’t believe what this teen did on camera’ or ‘OMG, you won’t believe what this teacher did to his student.’”Hence innocent victims click the link out of curiosity and suspiciousness and end up providing the see the requests and permissions they need to access the information way beyond what’s required to be shared. Furthermore, it isn’t done after stealing all the unnecessary information of the victims; it then assures its spreading by replicating the same link posted through the profile of the victim. Eventually this ends up spreading the virally at maximum speed on Facebook.
Image via Wikipedia This kind of attacks have become very popular since last year, as studies shows that such malware has gotten so deep into Facebook users that on weekly average it attacks from three to two hundred thousand victims. Whereas, these attacks are no more left on weekly basis anymore, they’ve become so viral that they are attack now almost daily.
AVG has studied that why such kinds of viruses are growing day by day and becoming easier to spread result in becoming extremely common. It was concluded that people are usually more trustful when it comes to their social network, and are easily forged since they are frequently using innumerable applications daily; which involves installing, giving them permission.
Facebook is not the only victim of such advance and quickly spread viruses, Android have also had the same bitter experiences as their security threats remains on high level status. There has been a huge rise seen after the mid-2010 for these kinds of unique malware viruses. Regrettably, the targeting of such malware spreading on the Android platform has been way much more than its own popularity with consumers.
AVG has suggested that such cell phones, similar to Facebook, again give the user a “false sense of security,” which makes the process of spreading such viral malwares easier for cybercriminals. Furthermore, such practices also become easier as Android’s has an open source platform which “provides fertile ground for hackers and cyber criminals.”
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