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By Robert McMillan, IDG News Service - Thu May 7, 2009 6:10PM EDT
Cybercriminals who went after Facebook users with a number of phishing attacks last week have now turned around and begun sending spam messages from the Facebook accounts they cracked.
Some of the spam contains "run-of-the mill" Viagra-type messages, but some of it is more dangerous, Facebook spokesman Barry Schnitt said Thursday. "Some of it points to a site where users are hit with drive-by downloads of adware," he said in an e-mail message. " We've started blocking all of this spam this morning, have been deleting it, and resetting the passwords of accounts that sent it."
One of those sites, (typed out URL removed) is loaded with attack code that is used to install malicious programs, said Paul Ferguson, a researcher with antivirus vendor Trend Micro. The site is hosted at a Latvian data center that has been associated with other cybercriminal activity, he said. "My gut feeling is that it's the same criminal operation that was involved with the Russian Business Network," he said, alluding to an organized gang ....
