Barracuda Networks Chief Research Officer Paul Judge said:
Likes, newsfeeds, and apps have helped
lead Facebook to its social network dominance, and now attackers are
harnessing those same features to efficiently scale their efforts. These
fake profiles and apps give attackers a long-lived path to continuously
present malicious links to innocent users.
Also, researchers have shown how
friending malicious accounts can lead to account takeover using
Facebook’s trusted friend account recovery
(http://www.allfacebook.com/facebook-privacy-improves-2011-10). We have
analyzed thousands of fake accounts to determine features and patterns
that distinguish them from real users, and created a feature-based
heuristic engine to distinguish real users from fake profiles.
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