2 sponsored facebook ad malware attacks in 2 days
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I've had two users hit with fake blue screen attacks via facebook ads in the last two days. Where do I go with that? I tought facebook filtered ads. Here's what it looks like:
If the user tries to close the pop up it comes back. Also if they try to go back to the facebook tab, it brings the other tab back up. Anyone else dealing with this?
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You must be able to report this to facebook somehow.
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https://www.facebook.com/business/help/162606073801742
The blue screen only triggers when the user clicks on the ad right?
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It's probably a zero day exploit or a patch that hasn't been deployed.
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@Breffni-Potter said in 2 sponsored facebook ad malware attacks in 2 days:
https://www.facebook.com/business/help/162606073801742
The blue screen only triggers when the user clicks on the ad right?
As soon as some clicks the facebook ad, it triggers the new tab and won't let them off it. You can't even close the browser because the pop up is open. You have to kill IE with task manager.
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@Breffni-Potter said in 2 sponsored facebook ad malware attacks in 2 days:
https://www.facebook.com/business/help/162606073801742
The blue screen only triggers when the user clicks on the ad right?
Thanks for the link. Hopefully since I submitted screen shots with full URLs they can do something.
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@Mike-Davis said in 2 sponsored facebook ad malware attacks in 2 days:
@Breffni-Potter said in 2 sponsored facebook ad malware attacks in 2 days:
https://www.facebook.com/business/help/162606073801742
The blue screen only triggers when the user clicks on the ad right?
As soon as some clicks the facebook ad, it triggers the new tab and won't let them off it. You can't even close the browser because the pop up is open. You have to kill IE with task manager.
Train your users not to click ads on the internet?
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Facebook will be very keen to know that they are serving out adware, I'm sure.
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Their whole site is adware
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Whoops, meant to write malware.
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I would not mind if my BSOD has a phone number to call and explain why it BSODed.
Maybe disable access to Facebook altogether. -
Unfortunately both sites have users that need to use facebook to do their job. Aside from that, the scammers can just buy ads on any site.
The good side is now I have some fresh content to put in a presentation I'm doing on Tuesday about how not to get scammed.
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@Mike-Davis said in 2 sponsored facebook ad malware attacks in 2 days:
Unfortunately both sites have users that need to use facebook to do their job. Aside from that, the scammers can just buy ads on any site.
The good side is now I have some fresh content to put in a presentation I'm doing on Tuesday about how not to get scammed.
One thing you may want to add to your presentation is Google's shorten link. I did mine couple of weeks ago regarding a fake google docs using goo.gl instead of docs.google.com. It looks identical to google docs except the link itself (revealed after hover the link).
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@coliver said in 2 sponsored facebook ad malware attacks in 2 days:
@Mike-Davis said in 2 sponsored facebook ad malware attacks in 2 days:
@Breffni-Potter said in 2 sponsored facebook ad malware attacks in 2 days:
https://www.facebook.com/business/help/162606073801742
The blue screen only triggers when the user clicks on the ad right?
As soon as some clicks the facebook ad, it triggers the new tab and won't let them off it. You can't even close the browser because the pop up is open. You have to kill IE with task manager.
Train your users not to click ads on the internet?
Or install some good ad block add-ons? And just wondering if IE is used due to some specific requirements or can you not switch to another browser?
My advice to all our users are to install https://www.eff.org/privacybadger and uBlock Origin
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These things are easy to get around for users of chrome, they click the X on the popup when it tries to open it will ask you if you want to prevent the page from making more pop ups the they can close the tabs
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@Ambarishrh said in 2 sponsored facebook ad malware attacks in 2 days:
@coliver said in 2 sponsored facebook ad malware attacks in 2 days:
@Mike-Davis said in 2 sponsored facebook ad malware attacks in 2 days:
@Breffni-Potter said in 2 sponsored facebook ad malware attacks in 2 days:
https://www.facebook.com/business/help/162606073801742
The blue screen only triggers when the user clicks on the ad right?
As soon as some clicks the facebook ad, it triggers the new tab and won't let them off it. You can't even close the browser because the pop up is open. You have to kill IE with task manager.
Train your users not to click ads on the internet?
Or install some good ad block add-ons? And just wondering if IE is used due to some specific requirements or can you not switch to another browser?
My advice to all our users are to install https://www.eff.org/privacybadger and uBlock Origin
you deploy these to the users in a corporate environment?
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@Dashrender said in 2 sponsored facebook ad malware attacks in 2 days:
@Ambarishrh said in 2 sponsored facebook ad malware attacks in 2 days:
@coliver said in 2 sponsored facebook ad malware attacks in 2 days:
@Mike-Davis said in 2 sponsored facebook ad malware attacks in 2 days:
@Breffni-Potter said in 2 sponsored facebook ad malware attacks in 2 days:
https://www.facebook.com/business/help/162606073801742
The blue screen only triggers when the user clicks on the ad right?
As soon as some clicks the facebook ad, it triggers the new tab and won't let them off it. You can't even close the browser because the pop up is open. You have to kill IE with task manager.
Train your users not to click ads on the internet?
Or install some good ad block add-ons? And just wondering if IE is used due to some specific requirements or can you not switch to another browser?
My advice to all our users are to install https://www.eff.org/privacybadger and uBlock Origin
you deploy these to the users in a corporate environment?
I would trust EFF software for sure.
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@scottalanmiller said in 2 sponsored facebook ad malware attacks in 2 days:
@Dashrender said in 2 sponsored facebook ad malware attacks in 2 days:
@Ambarishrh said in 2 sponsored facebook ad malware attacks in 2 days:
@coliver said in 2 sponsored facebook ad malware attacks in 2 days:
@Mike-Davis said in 2 sponsored facebook ad malware attacks in 2 days:
@Breffni-Potter said in 2 sponsored facebook ad malware attacks in 2 days:
https://www.facebook.com/business/help/162606073801742
The blue screen only triggers when the user clicks on the ad right?
As soon as some clicks the facebook ad, it triggers the new tab and won't let them off it. You can't even close the browser because the pop up is open. You have to kill IE with task manager.
Train your users not to click ads on the internet?
Or install some good ad block add-ons? And just wondering if IE is used due to some specific requirements or can you not switch to another browser?
My advice to all our users are to install https://www.eff.org/privacybadger and uBlock Origin
you deploy these to the users in a corporate environment?
I would trust EFF software for sure.
So would I - I've just not heard of any businesses deploying it. or any other browser add-on.
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@Dashrender said in 2 sponsored facebook ad malware attacks in 2 days:
@scottalanmiller said in 2 sponsored facebook ad malware attacks in 2 days:
@Dashrender said in 2 sponsored facebook ad malware attacks in 2 days:
@Ambarishrh said in 2 sponsored facebook ad malware attacks in 2 days:
@coliver said in 2 sponsored facebook ad malware attacks in 2 days:
@Mike-Davis said in 2 sponsored facebook ad malware attacks in 2 days:
@Breffni-Potter said in 2 sponsored facebook ad malware attacks in 2 days:
https://www.facebook.com/business/help/162606073801742
The blue screen only triggers when the user clicks on the ad right?
As soon as some clicks the facebook ad, it triggers the new tab and won't let them off it. You can't even close the browser because the pop up is open. You have to kill IE with task manager.
Train your users not to click ads on the internet?
Or install some good ad block add-ons? And just wondering if IE is used due to some specific requirements or can you not switch to another browser?
My advice to all our users are to install https://www.eff.org/privacybadger and uBlock Origin
you deploy these to the users in a corporate environment?
I would trust EFF software for sure.
So would I - I've just not heard of any businesses deploying it. or any other browser add-on.
They often deploy that kind of stuff. They just dont tell you
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