Background
On December 14th, 2010, the tech news site Tech News Daily[2] published an article titled “Miley Cyrus Sex Tape Phishing Scam Hits Facebook,” which reported that a phising scam was using promises of an adult video as bait. The scam aimed to trick users to click a link to view a sex tape featuring the pop singer-songrwriter Miley Cyrus. The link would take users to a phishing site meant to collect their Facebook account information, that would in turn post more spam messages to their Facebook pages.
Notable Developments
October 2012 Resurgence
In October of 2012, a new spam message claiming to be “Breaking news” began circulating around Facebook with a faked screenshot of Miley Cyrus (shown below, left). After clicking the link, the viewer would be taken to a new page instructing the user to paste a URL into their address bar (shown below, right), which would in turn give the scammers access to the user’s Facebook account.
Search Interest
External References
[1] Hoax Slayer – Miley Cyrus Sex Tape Facebook Scam
[2] Tech News – Miley Cyrus Sex Tape Phishing Scam Hits Facebook
[3] Tech News – Second Miley Cyrus Sex Tape Scam
[4] Break The Security – Miley cyrus sex Tape is real or fake? a Facebook Scam
[5] All Facebook – Miley Cyrus Sex Tape Hoax Spreading On Facebook
[6] Hot For Security – Yet Another Miley Cyrus Sex Tape Kicks Tagjacking Back into Shape Authentication Tokens Snatched through Copy/Paste Code Classic