Scammers Rely on Chrome Extension to Harvest Likes on Facebook

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Fiery

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Jan 11, 2011
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Bitdefender experts have identified a rogue web browser extension, hosted on the official Chrome store, that's used by scammers to harvest Facebook likes.

Read more: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Scammers-Rely-on-Chrome-Extension-to-Harvest-Likes-on-Facebook-330617.shtml
 

Jack

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Jan 24, 2011
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Google should really pre-approve this extension before making them public on their official Chrome store. I'm sure that the Bitdefender security team searched really hard to find this extension, but even so it shouldn't have been their in the first place.
40,000 likes for a Facebook page with no content and recently created, shows how succesful the deployment of this rogue was.....
 

softwareFREEk

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Dec 27, 2012
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Business Flash Player cmon really??!!!! what were they thinkin???????

no wonder security teams are going bald!!!!

I have an extension for Facebook but its rude to use your finger :p
 
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