::Trend Micro Threat Resource Center::

16 October 2009

Researcher: Hackers Hijack Some Facebook Apps

Full time Facebookers take note.

A number of games and other applications built to be used on Facebook.com have been hacked so that users are quietly sent to sites that try to install malicious programs, a security researcher has found.

A number of the applications Thompson named in his research -- including one called Pass-it-On, and another called City Fire Department -- are no longer available on Facebook.com.

Full report here.