Hackers Are Blasting Facebook Users With Phishing Emails

Facebook has nearly 3 billion active global users offering a big target for cyber criminals who are impersonating Facebook, sending a wave of fake messages telling users that their account will soon be taken down due to content that has been reported as infringing the rights of another user. The phishing campaign aims to steal user passwords and other personal information.

This information comes from researchers at Abnormal Security who have released details of a large scale a phishing campaign targeting Facebook users.

As part of this fake appeals process, the Facebook user is told they must provide sensitive information, including their name and email address. When the recipient tries to submit the form, a pop-up appears asking them to enter their Facebook password. If they enter their password and click Continue, the attacker then has all of the information they need to access the target’s Facebook account. 

All of the information the target puts into the phishing page is harvested by the attacker, who can then use it to login to a victim’s Facebook page and potentially logs them out of it. If the password is used on any other sites, the attackers can leverage the credentials and break into other accounts. 

Phishing attacks like this are successful because they create a sense of urgency and what makes this attack particularly effective is that the threat actors are leveraging Facebook’s actual infrastructure to execute the attack. Rather than sending the target straight to the phishing site via a link in the email, the attackers first redirect them to a real post on Facebook. However, while the phishing email and phishing domain might have looked legitimate at first glance, there were clues that would have suggested that something  suspicious

For example, while the email contained Facebook branding and claimed to be from Facebook itself, the sender email address was not related to Facebook at all. In addition to this, attempting to reply to the sender email directs messages to an unrelated Gmail address. 

If you suspect your Facebook account has been hacked, Go to the Settings section on the Facebook site, then click on the Security and Login tab. This will tell you all the devices and locations that you’ve accessed your account from. 

If there are any login attempts that you don’t recognise, there’s a good chance you’ve been hacked. To flag these up as suspicious, click on the ‘Not You’ tab to the right of the information.

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