A week in security (August 2 – August 8)
A roundup of the previous week’s breaking information security news and happenings, dated August 2 through August 8.
Malware “Eko” affecting French Facebook users
French Facebook users have been falling victim to a new Facebook Messenger “Trojan horse” arriving into their private message (PM) inboxes from network contacts.
The curious case of recurring “Page disabled” Facebook scams
We’re once again faced with a number of fake Facebook Security profiles, accounts that phishers were able to take over and control. No longer are they posting comments to random user feeds but sending them private messages instead.