Facebook has been hit with four malicious applications
and a new variant of theKoobface virusin the past few
days,
reports the BBC.
Koobface first hit the social networking site last
year. All the attacks have sought to steal personal information
from Facebook users, over and above what they actually want to
release on the public boards.
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One application, the BBC reports, tries to get
Facebook users to install it by claiming their contacts are having
trouble reading their profile on the network.
Once installed, this application then tries to re-send itself to
every contact of the victim.
One of the problems Facebook faces is that developers are
currently allowed to issue apps on the network without being
security checked. Whilst this open development is an asset in many
ways, it causes the problems the network has faced in the last few
days.