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Adware Spreading Via Social Engineering, Facebook Messenger
Adware Spreading Via Social Engineering, Facebook Messenger
The message uses the victim’s name and the word “video” in order to entice them to click through to a shortened bit.ly link in the message. If the victim does click through, they’re brought to a Google Docs page, which hosts an image from the victim’s Facebook Photo album.
Social engineering comes into play again on the Google Docs page. The photo has a transparent play button over it, rigged to look like a video. If the victim clicks on it, Jacoby says, it directs the victim to a series of websites, multiple domains the researcher calls a domain chain, and in turn adware.
