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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kmc madushan" data-source="post: 13063603" data-attributes="member: 341750"><img src="http://9.mshcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Skull.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Be careful about opening emails that claim you have been tagged in a Facebook photo, because they may actually be malware, according to a security expert.Sophos’s NakedSecurity blog outlined the threat on Wednesday. The company’s SophosLabs intercepted a “spammed-out email campaign” which was designed to spread malware. Sophos provided the following example:<img src="http://8.mshcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/facebook-malware-email.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />The blog notes that the email address above misspells “Facebook” as “Faceboook.” The link takes the user to a malicious iFrame script, which exposes the user’s computer to malware. However, within four seconds, the user’s browser is directed to a presumably innocent Facebook page like the one below to act as a smokescreen.<img src="http://6.mshcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/facebook-malware-page.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />The lab recommends checking the “Facebook” email addresses closely in emails and hover your mouse over the link, at which point you should see it doesn’t go to a Facebook page.Source</blockquote>

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