Anaconda coughs up a hippo? It’s a Facebook scam spreading virally

Yet another rogue Facebook application is spreading its tentacles rapidly across the social networking system, posting messages from users’ compromised accounts claiming to be a link to a video of an anaconda coughing up an entire hippo.

A quick search on Facebook finds thousands of users who appear to have updated their status with the message about “the scariest snake ever”:

OMG, this is the biggest and scariest snake I have ever seen, check out this video<

followed by a tiny.cc link.

As you can see in the following video, clicking on the link takes the unsuspecting Facebook user to a rogue application.

Read more in my article on the Naked Security website.

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