Fake Facebook Profiles Spreading Spyware

AVG makers of antivirus program LinkScanner, noticed a disturbing rash of nearly identical Facebook profiles aimed at infecting users’ computers with spyware.

AVG’s research chief Roger Thompson said that LinkScanner users had reported "rogue spyware attacks" from a large number of these profiles. He postulated that the fake profiles were created automatically, which would indicate that someone, somehow has figured out a way around the ReCaptchas used to protect Facebook from bot-created content.

Here are a few screenshots Thompson posted. Please note that all the fake profiles he reported showed the same main image:

 

 

 

 

 

"Facebook will deactivate all these accounts as quickly as they find them, but it can’t be an easy thing for them to find."