Is Facebook Becoming Hackers' New Playground for Cyber Crime?

There has been a massive increase in the number of corrupt domains containing the word facebook recently and computer users must be warned.

Cybercrooks are clearly aware of the success of Facebook, and are now using the social network as an entry point to distribute malware and steal credentials for online banking and credit cards. Facebook has become a platform for hackers and the like to abuse for their cybercrime. So much so that security experts are now saying that Facebook's biggest threat is cybercrime. The most recent malware attack comes in form of hackers spreading a dangerous worm through Facebook's 'Like' feature and now a new clickjacking scam is tricking users into 'liking' a page that has a message such as "Paramore n-a-k-ed photo leaked".

Here is a list of some of the corrupt Facebook domains to watch out for:

• facebook-ims.com
• facebooks.bz
• gjfacebook.com
• image-facebook.com
• ims-facebook.net
• inbox-facebook.com
• kfacebook.net
• kjfacebook.net
• lfacebooks.net
• ojfacebook.net
• ozfacebook.net
• ppfacebooks.net
• sodfacebook.com
• ujfacebook.net
• vfacebooks.net
• vvfacebook.net
• xfacebook.net
• xxfacebooks.com
• zfacebook.net
• zxfacebook.net

When any of these URLs are accessed, naturally a similar interface to the real Facebook is displayed. Cyber criminals do this to obtain your access data. Soon you will be redirected to the real Facebook website so as not to raise any suspicion. The image displayed below is an example of the fake Facebook site. It may easily be identified by the content of the address bar, which doesn't belong to Facebook. The text and the images are also different to the original site:

This is the image for the fake website:

Here you can see that the web address is not the original one:

This is what the real Facebook website looks like:

These websites not only steal personal data but also download malware the drive by download technique where a corrupt file is automatically run once the system is infected.
Cyber criminals use various computer worms to perform these malicious tasks.

Be sure to access the Facebook website by typing the URL into the browser and make an effort to ignore suspect links received via email.