I’ve just read an article on online “Network World” by Brad Reed dated 10/01/09 saying that hackers have found a way to crack Facebook’s Captchas and create false accounts. Those accounts are used for spreading spy ware phishing credit cards and other valuable information from innocent users.
Those rogue accounts show a picture of a woman and the moment one clicks on her video profile – it activates the spyware.
Facebook states it’s doing its best to eliminate false accounts ‘though it’s not easy to detect them. As a matter of fact, anyone can bypass Facebook’s Captacha code simply by googling a Youtube video tutorial which shows step by step how to remove facebook’s Captcha’s code.
I guess the nice thing in this story is the fact that Facebook, the great social network, has joined Google, Yahoo and Hotmail – all targets for spammers attack.
Once again it has been proved that captcha should be improved constantly if it’s into serving as a reliable spam blocker as well as a security system.
You can read more about Facebook Captcha Attack here
