Facebook users are warned to be on their guard against unsolicited emails they might receive suggesting that someone has left an offensive comment about them on their wall.
Hi, [REDACTED] commented on your Wall post. [REDACTED] wrote: "you piece of shit!!!" See the comment thread Reply to this email to comment on this post. Thanks, The Facebook Team
Of course, if you were alert you would hopefully notice that whoever sent out the emails has done a pretty poor job at disguising the message as though it were really from Facebook – take a look at that From: address for instance,
But there is always the danger that some computer users will be tricked into clicking on the link.
And if you do make the mistake of clicking to find out more you will not be taken to the real Facebook site, but instead your browser will visit a website hosting a malicious iFrame script detected by Sophos as Mal/Iframe-W. Within seconds, your computer will find itself put at risk of malware infection via the notorious Blackhole exploit kit.
You may not notice, however, as the cybercriminals have redirected your web browser to a Facebook page which acts as a smokescreen to the attack.
