Network Security Notes: Attackers trick Facebook users into exposing secret security codes

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Network Security Notes: Attackers trick Facebook users into exposing secret security codes

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Attackers trick Facebook users into exposing secret security codes

New social engineering attacks are tricking Facebook users into exposing anti-CSRF tokens associated with their sessions. These security codes allow attackers to make unauthorized requests through the victim's browser.

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) is an attack technique that abuses the trust relationship between websites and authenticated users. Because of the way the Web works, a page can theoretically force a visitor's browser to issue a request to a third-party site where the user is authenticated, thus piggybacking on their active session.

In order to prevent this from happening, websites embed unique authorization codes known as anti-CSRF tokens into forms. Since these are not available to attackers, rogue requests can no longer be triggered successfully.

However, security researchers from Symantec have detected a new type of Facebook attack in which victims are tricked into handing over such tokens manually by going through a fake verification process....

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