A Kaspersky Lab researcher has discovered a Brazilian social engineering campaign that attempts to trick Facebook users into installing a malicious plug-in hosted on Google s Chrome Web Store. The Facebook scam-page solicits victims by promising to teach them how to remove the virus from their Facebook profile . Securelist claims that the application has 923 users, according to a post by researcher Fabio Assolini. The scam has been reported to Google, but Assolini notes that the scam’s administrators are well-aware of.
Source: https://threatpost.com/facebook-scam-driven-malicious-chrome-extension-032612/76366/