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By Brian Prince
2009-03-02

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For the second time in less than a week, Facebook users have fallen victim to a widespread attack due to malicious third-party applications. The latest attack is sending out notifications that users are in violation of Facebook's Terms of Service.

For the second time in less than a week, Facebook has been forced to squelch a rogue application targeting users of the site.

In the most recent attack, Facebook users receive notices stating they have been reported for violating Facebook’s terms of service by someone in their friends' list. A link in the notification leads to an application called “"f a c e b o o k - - closing down!!!" being installed.

The application in turn spams messages out to the victim’s friends that are similar to this one: "[Friend's name] has just reported you to Facebook for violating our Terms of Service. - This is your official warning! - Click here to find out why you were reported! - Request Facebook look at what has happened and rule immediatley."

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