30 August 2011

Fake Facebook Page Targets Pro-Revolution Syrian Users | #Syria #hackers #SEA

The Information Warfare Monitor (IWM) has uncovered an attempt to use a fake URL and login page to lure Facebook users into providing their login credentials. Given the nature of the content being linked to, this appears to be an attempt to target pro-revolution Syrian Facebook users. The link (hxxp://facebook.com-video-php-v222423423.homsrev.webgoof.com/video/video.php) attempts to mimic the URL and login page of Facebook, as seen in Figure 1. It has been distributed through multiple Syrian Twitter accounts, which describe the content as a "fascinating video clip showing an attack on Syrian regime". The use of Twitter accounts to distribute malicious links is a common tactic and has been documented by past Information Warfare Monitor research.

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