Yesterday Twitter users were driven to porn sites by simply hovering their mouse on the offending tweet. And prior, Facebook users were duped to liking a bogus fan page.

Businesses need to be extra careful when they come across shared links like these on their social media accounts. The nature of these attacks could spread very quickly through out your network and could lead your customers to very bad places on the web. If your Facebook fan page or Twitter account starts to share any of these bogus links please inform your followers not to touch it and contact your IT personnel immediately. You should report these bugs to each platform as well.

If you don’t know where it came from, don’t touch it.—PEDRO CASTRO

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Instead of rummaging through MTV’s garbage chute of reality TV shows, users can watch a hot music video whenever they want. Most of them are longer than usual viral videos but since music videos have songs, it’s most likely you won’t click off. Great music videos from pop artists are very easy to share so they rank high on the viral video charts.

According to Unruly Media’s Viral Video Chart the current number #1 video is Eminem’s Love the Way you Lie.

1,743,144 shares on Facebook and the nearly 20,000 tweets on Twitter speak for themselves. In fact 12 of the 20 top videos are from recording artists with many of them selling advertising on their YouTube pages. What’s more, a great music video always stays in rotation.

Do you want to grab Ludacris’ Get back video to pump yourself up for an argument?

Here you go.

Do you want to go back to 1993 and see Tag Team’s video?

Whoomp here It Is

Search for a music video on Youtube and you’ll be able to find it (as well as scores of crappy duplicates). The music video is making a comeback and will be more popular than ever before – thanks to social media—PEDRO CASTRO

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This is a prime example of a malicious entity using an interesting headline, a provocative picture for the purposes of evil. They also used a bogus captcha module which were really like and share buttons in disguise. While this generated over 700 likes in a short amount of time it also clogged news feeds (which I’m sure led to all three pages being shut down). This campaign capitalized on curiosity.

The motivation behind these “Clickjackings” could range from information looting, malware transmission and extreme annoyance.

So please be careful where you click. Remember if it looks like SPAM, it is SPAM.—PEDRO CASTRO

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