Security News > 2024 > April > Fake Facebook MidJourney AI page promoted malware to 1.2 million people
Hackers are using Facebook advertisements and hijacked pages to promote fake Artificial Intelligence services, such as MidJourney, OpenAI's SORA and ChatGPT-5, and DALL-E, to infect unsuspecting users with password-stealing malware.
In one of the cases seen by researchers at Bitdefender, a malicious Facebook page impersonating Midjourney amassed 1.2 million followers and remained active for nearly a year before it was eventually taken down.
The page wasn't created from scratch; instead, the attackers hijacked an existing profile in June 2023 and converted it to a fake Midjourney page.
While this page has since been taken down, the threat actors launched a new page that is still active with over 600,000 members that is pushing a fake Midjourney site distributing malware.
Although the imposter page boasting over 1.2 million followers was recently shut down, our research has shown that cybercriminals acted quickly to set up a new page impersonating Midjourney between March 8-9, 2024.
The latest malicious page impersonating Midjourney appears to have been taken over by the attackers on March 18 when the cybercriminals changed the original name of the original Facebook page.
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