A new twist to an old phishing scam is stealing login credentials from Facebook users. The scam doesn’t link to a fake logon page, like similar Facebook phishing expeditions. This scam takes you to a bogus “customer support” site. For more details, here is an article from Stu Sjouwerman, CEO of the security awareness firm KnowBe4.
By Stu Sjouwerman
“Rather than take the usual path of sending an email and linking to a spoofed logon page, this attack takes a different set of actions that at first make no sense but may actually be brilliant.
So, you get an email that seemingly looks like every phishing email you’ve received – pretty bland and simple, but with a message that those not in IT could fall for:
Now, you’re probably thinking that there’s a link to a look-alike Facebook page so threat actors can steal your credentials, right?
In this case you’re wrong. Security researchers at Malwarebytes have uncovered a multi-stage scam that starts with an email like the one above, but the link provided opens a new pre-filled email using a mailto: link to begin a dialog with a “customer support” person of some type.
Read “Simple Facebook Phishing Scam Takes Unexpected Turn” on the KnowBe4 website.
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At first glance, this seems like a really dumb step. But when you think about how the “email-to-logon page” method has been overdone, this may actually be an unexpected twist that may actually increase credibility. The emails contain the usual “good enough to pass a cursory glance” test, and the assumption is eventually the customer service person will ask for the victims credentials, or perhaps credit card details, etc.
So, is this dumb or brilliant? Time will tell.”
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Source: https://blog.knowbe4.com/facebook-phishing-scam-takes-unexpected-turn
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