{"id":25875,"date":"2012-11-19T15:20:47","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T05:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/power-up.space\/?p=25875"},"modified":"2012-11-19T15:20:47","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T05:20:47","slug":"google-chrome-app-grabs-identities-forges-blogs-in-victims-name-to-promote-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=25875","title":{"rendered":"Google Chrome App grabs identities, forges blogs in victims\u2019 name to promote scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><em>Bitdefender catches Facebook colour scam with both hands in cookie jar<\/em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>SYDNEY\/AUCKLAND<\/em><\/strong><strong> <\/strong>\u2013<strong> November 19, 2012<\/strong> \u2013 A Google Chrome app that promises to change the colour of Facebook accounts instead nabs authentication cookies and generates dozens of blogs registered to the victims\u2019 Gmail address, in a new scam analysed by Bitdefender, the leading global <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bitdefender.com.au\/\">antivirus<\/a> company.<\/p>\n<p>Once the malicious app is installed from Google\u2019s Chrome Web Store, it starts displaying a large Google Ads banner redirecting users to a \u201cwork from home scam.\u201d When clicking the sign-up link, users are redirected to a fraudulent website.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cScammers gave a new twist to the old change-your-Facebook-colour scheme that\u2019s been luring users to fraudulent websites to grab credentials and other sensitive data,\u201d says Chief Security Strategist, Catalin Cosoi. \u201cBy creating dozens of blogs for a single account, the scam spreads like wildfire among Facebook friends.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The blogs generating under the email address of the victims, which are used in further disseminating the scam, have registered a large number of hits among users in the US, the UK, Germany, Spain, Romania, and other countries.<\/p>\n<p>The app can also post wall messages on the victims&#8217; account. The messages use friend tagging to convince the victim\u2019s friends to visit the blog domains. Each time the app posts on a users\u2019 timeline, it links to one of the auto-generated blogs as to avoid blacklisting.<\/p>\n<p>Bitdefender encourages users to use an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bitdefender.com.au\/\">antivirus solution<\/a> and the free application <a href=\"http:\/\/safego.bitdefender.com\/\">Safego<\/a>, which protects Facebook and Twitter accounts from scams, spam, malware and private data exposure.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitdefender catches Facebook colour scam with both hands in cookie jar\u00a0 SYDNEY\/AUCKLAND \u2013 November 19, 2012 \u2013 A Google Chrome app that promises to change the colour of Facebook accounts instead nabs authentication cookies and generates dozens of blogs registered to the victims\u2019 Gmail address, in a new scam analysed by Bitdefender, the leading global<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=25875\">Read More\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-news","category-software-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25877,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25875\/revisions\/25877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}