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Facebook remains the preferred target for cybercriminals who specialize in stealing social network accounts.
According to Kaspersky Lab’s statistics in Q1 2014, fake sites imitating Facebook accounted for 10.85% of all instances when the heuristic Anti-phishing component was triggered.
Only fake Yahoo pages sparked more phishing alerts, leaving Facebook the prime target among social networking sites.
Today’s Facebook fakery is a global business, with cyber criminals attacking the site in a variety of languages like English, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Turkish, Arabic and others.
Unauthorized access to accounts in Facebook or any other social network can be used to spread phishing links or malware.
Cybercriminals also use stolen accounts to send spam to the victims’ contact lists and publish spam on their friends’ walls where it can be seen by other users, or to spread messages asking their friends to send urgent financial assistance.