MySpace has become a victim of phishing again

Online fraudsters have just taken advantage of the popular social networking site MySpace to organize attacks and steal users' personal information.

Security experts say last week online scammers sent thousands of fake 'junk mail' junk emails sent from 'a MySpace friend' email address. receiver.

Usually the content of these emails is' you've got a new song from on MySpace! '( You received a gift as a song posted on MySpace website! ) and 'encourage' users to click on the attached links to listen to the song. Not only that, but to make these emails more similar to MySpace legitimate emails, the scammers also include MySpace's 'featured' text.

Security firm Fortinet said there were more than 50,000 emails sent above within the past 9 days.

The goal of these emails is to trick Internet users into accessing a host of fake malicious websites such as online music business websites that are included in those emails.

If you visit those websites, users will get 'promotion' to buy an album of any artist for under $ 2. So perhaps there have been many users who are passionate about music becoming victims of this scam because the payment process for music products does not happen smoothly but against their bank account information. has fallen into the hands of scammers.

But the ultimate goal of the attack is to trick users into providing personal information and credit card numbers to fraudulent scammers.

Judging by the attack, security experts say this is an attack that uses 'social engineering' attacks with the goal of stealing personal account information from Internet users. and collect unrighteous words.

Sophos security firm confirmed that the sites do not have any connection to the popular MySpace social site.

MySpace's number of users has now surpassed 43 million.

Hoang Dung