Today it was revealed that hackers posing as Facebook technical support staff members have been seen attempting to take over the accounts of famous users.
Group-IB stated in a blog post published on April 25 that it found more than 3,200 bogus Facebook profiles, 1,200 of which had fraudulent messages purporting to be written by Meta’s technical support staff, during the planned phishing campaign in February and March.
The posts served as a ruse to use a well-known social engineering tactic, which involved convincing the victim to act quickly so their account wouldn’t be “closed” by clicking on a malicious link read more Meta support team impostors target celebrity Facebook accounts.
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