Almost 300 people get shot out of the air and the only thing cyber-criminals can think of is how to exploit the disaster. What else is new. Disgusting.
Scammers are now using the MH17 disaster in the Ukraine to trick peoplein clicking on links, both on Facebook, Twitter and phishing emails.
Here are some examples, a link that supposedly was a video of the MalaysiaAirlines crash went to a pornographic website. Facebook pages dedicated to victims are having links to scam websites as well, for instance, a Facebook apparently dedicated to Liam Sweeney was set up, hosting spam and uses his name and picture. The page was deleted but others will spring up.
Hundreds of tweets were posted that apparently were about the MH17 disaster,but in reality included spam links or links that lead to a malware infection.When you see some title that claims a...