You may be loading malware through your Facebook account

Thursday, July 30, 2015

Malicious tagging is a way of tricking unsuspecting Facebook users into downloading malware in an attempt to steal personal information from your FB account. The way it works: You may receive a notification that a friend has tagged you in a post. It may appear to be a video that some of your other FB friends are also tagged. When you click on the video it will instruct you that you must first download a Flash player before you can view the video. If the player is downloaded, the malware basically can take over your FB account, create another fake video and post and automatically tags your friends.

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