By Robert McMillan


Wed, April 29, 2009 — IDG News Service — Facebook users were hit Wednesday with a phishing attack that tried to steal names and passwords from users of the popular social network.

In the attack, people are sent phoney e-mail messages, appearing to come from Facebook, that try to send them to a malicious Web site, Fbaction.net, which looks like a Facebook log-in page.

The Fbaction.net Web site was live Wednesday afternoon, but Facebook is working to blacklist the domain and hoping to have the site shut down, according to a Facebook spokesman. "We are aware of this phishing domain and have already begun to take action," the company said in a statement.

"Our user operations team has blocked the domain from being shared on Facebook and is removing the content retroactively from any messages. They will also be resetting passwords of senders to remove access from an attacker. We're also reaching out to the ISPs to get information and will attempt to build a civil and/or criminal case against the owners."

Continued @ CIO.com