Facebook hit by massive porn outbreak

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Watch out if you're at work, as an outbreak of unwanted hardcore porn and gory imagery has spread throughout some users' Facebook feeds, caused by some sort of virus. Have you been affected?

Viewing Facebook at work? Well perhaps watch out, because according to a recent report over at Gawker, Facebook has been inundated recently by both hardcore porn and gory images due to some sort of hack. These images simply pop-up in your news feed and are associated to users who have nothing to do with the porn, one Gawker user mentioned.

The user, Adam Shank, said that “the pictures are REALLY graphic” such as images of women masturbating and erect penises: just the kind of stuff you want your boss to see over your shoulder at work. The issue also appears not to be localized to this one guy, as people on Twitter have been reporting the issues as well, saying things like “Facebook is officially a porn site” and “it’s a legit porn site.”

Porn isn’t the only thing appearing, as actress Courtney Zito said today that she saw images such as “a guy who had his skull bashed in and his brains on the street” in her Facebook feed. The unwanted images have caused users on Facebook to start groups such as “I remember when Facebook WASN’T a porn site!”

Gawker speculates that this is the work of Anonymous; however that’s unlikely because the “hacktivist” group recently said that they would not be targeting Facebook and that any operation involving Facebook was not associated with the group. Whoever it is though is certainly causing a stir and annoying some users, and Facebook are struggling to keep it under control.

Personally I haven’t experienced these graphic images in my feed, it could be that whatever virus/worm/hack is causing this unwanted hasn’t reached us down in Australia, but I am glad that I don’t have to sift through porn to get to the actual user content I go to the site for.

Have you been affected? Let us know in the comments.

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[DKT27]

Facebook Users Flooded with Adult Images in Mystery Hack

Some of the images include a Photoshopped picture of Justin Bieber in a pornographic situation and a bloodied, dead dog.

For the past several days, many Facebook users have been seeing adult images in their news feeds that feature pornography, violence and animal abuse -- the result of what security analysts say is a mystery attack.

Some of the images include a Photoshopped picture of Justin Bieber in a pornographic situation and a bloodied, dead dog.

Graham Cluley, Senior Technology Consultant with Sophos, weighed in on the trend in his Naked Security blog Tuesday morning. According to Cluley, the content is often showing up on feeds without the knowledge of the member that appears to be responsible for it.

"It isn't presently clear precisely how the offending content has been spread -- whether users are falling for a clickjacking scheme, are being tagged in content without their knowledge, have poorly chosen privacy settings, have been tricked into installing malicious code, or have fallen victim to another vulnerability inside Facebook itself," said Cluley in his blog post. "What's clear, however, is that mischief-makers are upsetting many Facebook users and making the social networking site far from a family-friendly place."

Several other news outlets, however, claim the offensive content is the result of a clickjacking exploit that originates with a malicious link that users click on hoping to see a Kim Kardashian video. After clicking on the link, all friends in the user's network get spammed with the disturbing images.

News of the hack is being widely discussed on Twitter, with many questioning whether the attack is the work of hacktivist group Anonymous, which had made threats several months ago to take down the social network on Nov. 5. With that date passed, some are wondering if the porn hack is a late attempt to make a statement.

No group has officially taken the blame for the malicious activity yet and Facebook says it is investigating.

"It's precisely this kind of problem which is likely to drive people away from the site," said Cluley. "Facebook needs to get a handle on this problem quickly, and prevent it from happening on such a scale again."

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[beer]

Facebook can now change its name to facial book.

[avmad]

See you later, im off to Facebook :whistle:

[Blud]

See you later, im off to Facebook :whistle:

Why do I have a feeling they integrated the goatse page somewhere :P

[CODYQX4]

See you later, im off to Facebook :whistle:

Why do I have a feeling they integrated the goatse page somewhere :P

Because the law of the internet says that that is inevitable.

[beer]

which is worst

"masturbating women with erect penis" or "justin bieber in a pornographic situation with a bloodied dead dog"

do i hear a pollllllll :dance2:

[T4C Fantasy]

haha erected penis' facecock

[DKT27]

Facebook porn cyber spam attack stopped

A web browser exploit that caused a flood of pornographic and violent images to be posted on the News Feeds of a number of Facebook users has now been stopped, according to the company.

Tuesday's rash of pornographic and violent images on the News Feeds of some Facebook users was caused by a script that took advantage of an exploit in some web browsers, according to a statement from Facebook spokesperson Frederic Wolens. CNN.com reports that according to Wolens, Facebook's team of engineers has now "eliminated most of the spam caused by this attack". He added, "We are now working to improve our systems to better defend against similar attacks in the future."

While there was speculation that the porno spam attack on Facebook was caused by a direct cyber attack, Wolens claims the real culprit was a malicious script that some Facebook users were apparently tricked into adding into its URL address bars on their web browsers. The script caused the user to share the images generated by the exploit onto their News Feed.

So far there's no word on who might be responsible for sharing this web browser exploit although some have speculated it might be a splinter group from the hacker organization Anonymous. Facebook has now reportedly created code that shuts down the pages that are sharing the pornographic links.

Obviously the lesson for everyone is don't cut and past code that you don't know anything about into your web browser address bar. Also, it might be a good idea to make sure your web browser itself is up to date; safety first, after all. You can check out out the reactions to some of Neowin's readers to this Facebook spam in our forum section.

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[Blud]

No more Lemonparty :P