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It’s worth remembering that it’s not just Western stars and Hollywood actresses who can be the subject of cybercriminal lures. In the last 24 hours, admirers of Singapore celebrity Fiona Xie have been tempted into clicking on a link which has spread virally via Facebook.
A picture of Fiona Xie sat in a bathtub is accompanied by a message reading:
Fiona Xie. Is she REALLY as innocent as she looks?
Private sexual videos of famous Singapore celebrities here. Only enter if you are 18 years old and above.
As one of your Facebook friends appears to have “Liked” the message, you might be curious to click further. Unfortunately for you, however, this is a honeytrap that takes your browser to a webpage which uses the clickjacking technique to fool you into unknowingly saying you “Like” the page yourself.
And in this way, the message spreads virally across Facebook. If nothing else, chances are that you will be embarrassed that your friends now know you were seeking for sex videos of Fiona Xie.
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"Unforunately"? Well, someone was distracted by a pretty picture while typing 😉
Thank you. Fixed now.
I think I must have had an accident with my "Tee Remover" (that will probably only make sense to fans of the classic Infocom adventure game 'Leather Goddesses of Phobos'..)
Really? This is the story you're covering when there was a huge issue with the android market and the droid dream backdoor trojan being packaged and distributed in the market? It used to be as long as you didnt download outside the market you would generally be ok. Much better story than these facebook over and over scams.
Hi Alex. We've written about the Android malware story here: http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/03/03/droid-…
We would have published that story earlier but we had some infrastructure issues, which delayed posting. Of course, we weren't the only site that was hit by those issues as you can read about here: http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/03/03/wordpr…