Facebook App Scare Is Malware Bait

Scammers are taking advantage of fears of an unnamed Facebook app to draw users to sites containing malware.

"Searching on Google for the term 'Facebook unnamed app' leads to numerous hacker-poisoned search engine results prepared for the scam, which redirect to malware distribution portals," writes The Register's John Leyden. "A blog posting by Rik Ferguson of Trend Micro explains that the Facebook unnamed app security threat is just a rumour, but the threat of searching for the term is all too real."

"Ferguson reckons the jury is out on whether scareware scammers created the rumour on Facebook in the first place or just latched onto it for their own benefit," Leyden writes.