Vincent's Tech Blog

Analysis: Facebook users who click on links in posts promoting a video titled "Malaysian Airlines Finally Found!" are redirected to a page where they're asked to like and share the video before viewing it, unleashing a flurry of spam posts to their pages and possibly compromising the security of their accounts. (I know; I tried it. The news feed of my test pageinstantly filled up with spam.) Users are then invited to download special "video download manager" software which is unnecessary at best and malicious at worst. A concurrent scam touts a video with the absurd title, "Malaysia Plane MH370 Has Been Spotted Somewhere Near Bermuda Triangle," and another scam uses the title, " Malaysian Plane Crash Is FOUND! "

Pop Singer Justin Bieber's Twitter account hacked for around 15 minutes before it was corrected! The Twitter account with 50.2 Million Followers was compromised i.e. Twitter account with the second most Twitter followers. Spammers tweeted in Indonesian language from his hacked account with the links to a malicious twitter app named "ShootingStarPro", and messages reading “Justin Bieber Cemberut?”, means - "Justin Bieber sullen?"  It seems that the Justin's twitter account was hijacked by Indonesian hacker with a malicious twitter app, that further tweeted links to the a malicious website rumahfollowers[dot]tk that hosted "ShootingStarPro" app, aimed to target his millions of followers in one shot.