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Facebook Porn Storm Used Same Tactics As May’s Bin Laden Spam

Facebook confirms a coordinated spam attack that resulted in sexually explicit images, photos of animal abuse. The attacks relied on the same trickery as a campaign last spring that touted the death of Osama Bin Laden. Facebook says it’s working with major browser companies to fix the underlying issue that allows spammers to do this. A Sophos security researcher says Google’s Chrome and Mozilla’s Firefox 6 and later were immune to self-XSS attacks. Facebook did not specify which browsers were vulnerable to the attacks.”]

Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2130172/facebook-porn-storm-used-same-tactics-as-may-s-bin-laden-spam.html

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