Are You A Facebook Zombie?

• Author: Zub
• Filed under: Information Security
• Date: Sep 6,2008

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Researchers Use Facebook App to Create Zombie Army

It’s apparently possible for hackers to grow an army of zombies through Facebook and the user would be unaware of it.

Computer researchers built a tool that silently turns Facebook users into a powerful zombie army that can attack other websites or scout for vulnerable sites on the net.All that is necessary to create the Facebook Botnet is to have users choose install a rogue Facebook application written by an outside developer.

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