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NodeStealer 2.0 hijacks Facebook business accounts
August 27, 2023
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Unit 42 researchers recently uncovered a previously unreported phishing campaign that distributed an infostealer capable of completely taking over Facebook business accounts. Facebook business accounts were attacked with a phishing lure that offered tools such as business spreadsheet templates. This is part of a growing trend of attacks targeting Facebook business accounts for ad fraud and other purposes. The trend started in July 2022 with the discovery of the info-stealer Ducktail. Phishing targets Facebook business accounts About eight months later, in March 2023, FakeGPT, a new variant of a fake…

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Darknet prices for passports, credit cards or PayPal accounts
August 6, 2023
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Information has its value: In a report, Bitdefender has determined which market prices apply to personal information and documents on the dark web. A German identity card is available from as little as 2.500 euros. Facebook and LinkedIn access are available as cheap goods. The dark web is a large exchange for selling personal information. Many of the offers aimed at criminals are themselves fraudulent. But information has its market price. In a recent report, Bitdefender Labs documented what some digital identity assets are worth. Personal documents are the most expensive. Access data to social media accounts such as Facebook…

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Malware in business apps spies on Facebook accounts
14 October 2022
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According to Facebook, or rather its parent company Meta, it has found over 400 malware-infected Android and iOS apps in the Google and Apple stores. The apps should tap and forward Facebook access data. Interesting: Meta also found many malicious business or ad management apps. This year, Meta security researchers found more than 400 malicious Android and iOS apps designed to steal Facebook credentials and compromise people's accounts. These apps were listed in the Google Play Store and Apple's App Store and classified as games, VPN services, business apps...

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533 million Facebook records leaked 
10 April 2021
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It was recently revealed that the personal information of over half a billion (533 million) Facebook users, including phone numbers, was leaked online. Facebook itself confirmed the leak, saying it was a consequence of a security vulnerability that they fixed back in 2019. The number of users affected by the data breach in Germany is over 6 million, in Austria over 1,2 million and in Switzerland around 1,6 million. The vulnerability and theft may not be new, but Facebook users whose data was stolen in 2019 are right now because of the data leak.

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4,5 million phishing attacks via Facebook
10 November 2020
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Phishing in companies: 4,5 million registered attacks via Facebook. A Kaspersky analysis shows that social networks, messengers and external cloud services are used by both employees and cyber criminals. Current Kaspersky research shows that employees of small and medium-sized businesses most frequently access YouTube, Facebook, Google services and WhatsApp during their working hours. Some of these services are used by cyber criminals to sniff out data. Employees also access the company Popular cloud services are popular with employees as well as cyber criminals. The latter can use phishing as a gateway into the company. For example, the app ...

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