Security News > 2022 > September > Phishers take aim at Facebook page owners

Phishers are looking to trick owners of Facebook pages with fake notices from the social network, in an attempt to get them to part with sensitive information.

Such a link makes it less likely that email security solutions will flag the email as potentially malicious, and can also give a false sense of security to the potential targets, as the email ostensibly came from Facebook and contains a link to a page hosted on Facebook.

Hackers often leverage sites that appear on email security services' Allow lists - and Facebook is one of those.

Just the fact that the phishing link points to Facebook can be enough to fool some users.

Fuchs told Help Net Security that the phishers are not specifically targeting known owners of Facebook ad accounts.

With the former, attackers may hijack victims' Facebook ad account and use it for attacks at a later date.

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