Twitter, Facebook spammers exploit MH17 crash

Rappler.com

This is AI generated summarization, which may have errors. For context, always refer to the full article.

file photo by EPA

Online security experts warn that scammers are using the MH17 crash in east Ukraine to link to either pornographic websites or spam pages. On Twitter, a security firm detected tweets pretending to be about MH17 but which bore spam links. On Facebook, a community page dedicated to one of the victims uses his name and photo but users who click on the link end up on a pornographic website. Richard Cos, chief intelligence officer of anti-spam body Spamhaus told the BBC, “It is a fairly rapid and predictable response by the individuals behind it. They are all to make money. There is no compassion involved.”

Read the full story on the BBC.

Add a comment

Sort by

There are no comments yet. Add your comment to start the conversation.

Summarize this article with AI

How does this make you feel?

Loading
Download the Rappler App!