Hijacked Facebook accounts used to spread torture pics

Posted on March 26th, 2008 at 7:00 am to iTNews by Shaun Nichols

Security researchers claim to have uncovered a new wave of attacks in which profiles on Facebook are used to post images of child torture..

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