Facebook has been under attack in recent days from spammers in search of information that will help them commit ID fraud. Some members claimed that their accounts had been deactivated or hijacked, while much more spam was received than usual. One source suggests that abuse from malware was higher in the last month than all of 2007.
As TechRadar reported yesterday, the social networking site has now got over 100 million account holders ('users' implies action, which probably applies more to its minority hardcore). Many of these attacks have been variants of a worm called Koobface, which has been slithering around the cyberguts of both Facebook and MySpace since late July. Facebook reckons everything is now under control.