
"Do you know what that innocent-looking Facebook app is really doing?
Researchers at the Institute of Computer Science (ICS) have created a proof-of-concept Facebook application capable of covertly herding users of the popular social network into a powerful — and malicious — botnet.
The demo application, called Photo of the Day, delivers a different image from National Geographic everyday but, behind the scenes, special code embedded into the application creates a botnet of Facebook users launching denial-of-service attacks."
This just brings facebook to a whole new level of creepy.
This just brings facebook to a whole new level of creepy.
Maybe even worse than creepy.
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