Spam attack hits Facebook’s own Help Center

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The community forum on Facebook’s Help Center has become overrun by spammers, making the self-help support community effectively useless.

The spam messages, which at the time of writing are claiming to offer ways to watch live streaming video of American football games, appear to have been posted by bogus or compromised Facebook accounts.

Clicking on the links typically takes you to a webpage which asks you to hand over your email address, claiming that you will be sent a program that will allow you to watch live streaming video of football games. The potentials for abuse or malicious attack are obvious – and we would recommend that no users click on the links.

The alarm was first raised about the spam attack by the…

Read more in my article on the Naked Security website.

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Graham Cluley is a veteran of the cybersecurity industry having worked for a number of security companies since the early 1990s when he wrote the first ever version of Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus Toolkit for Windows. Now an independent analyst, he regularly makes media appearances and is an international public speaker on the topic of cybersecurity, hackers, and online privacy. Follow him on Twitter, Mastodon, Bluesky, or drop him an email.

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