New Investment Scams Use Facebook Ads, RDGA Domains, and IP Checks to Filter Victims
Researchers studying cybersecurity have exposed two threat actors that use traffic distribution systems (TDSes) to hide their activities and stage celebrity endorsements to plan investment schemes.
The DNS threat intelligence company Infoblox has dubbed the activity clusters Reckless Rabbit and Ruthless Rabbit.
It has been noted that the attacks use fake sites, such as bitcoin exchanges, to entice victims. These platforms are then promoted on social media. The use of online forms to gather user information is a significant component of many scams.
According to security researchers Darby Wise, Piotr Glaska, and Laura da Rocha, Reckless Rabbit fabricates Facebook advertisements that result in phony news stories that include a celebrity endorsing the investing platform.
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