Thursday, January 30, 2025
HomeCyber Security NewsFacebook Infrastructure Used by Hackers in Phishing Attack Chain

Facebook Infrastructure Used by Hackers in Phishing Attack Chain

Published on

SIEM as a Service

Follow Us on Google News

A Meta-Phish attack that could lead to the loss of personally identifiable information (PII), login information, and a Facebook profile link was discovered by Trustwave SpiderLabs.

This recent phishing campaign tricks victims by using Facebook posts in its chain of attacks. The emails that were sent to the targets made it appear as though one of the recipients’ Facebook posts violated copyright, and they threatened to remove their accounts if no appeal was made within 48 hours.

https://www.trustwave.com/media/19406/picture1yu.png?v=0.0.1
Phishing email message

“The content of this Facebook post appears legitimate because it uses a dummy ‘Page Support’ profile with the Facebook logo as its display picture. At first glance, the page looks legitimate, but the link provided in this post leads to an external domain”, according to Trustwave.

Here the Facebook post pretends to be “Page Support,” using a Facebook logo to appear as if the company manages it.

https://www.trustwave.com/media/19407/picture2yu.png?v=0.0.1
Facebook post masqueraded as a support page

The main phishing URL, hxxps:/meta[.]forbusinessuser[.]xyz/main[.]php, which resembles Facebook’s copyright appeal page, is reached by clicking the link in the post.

https://www.trustwave.com/media/19408/picture3yu.png?v=0.0.1
Fake Facebook Copyright Appeal page

Particularly, any data that victims enter into the form after hitting the send button, along with the victim’s client IP and geolocation data will be forwarded to hackers.

Also, threat actors may gather more data to get through fingerprinting protections or security questions while gaining access to the victim’s Facebook account.

The victim is then redirected to the next phishing website, where a false 6-digit one-time password (OTP) request with a timer is displayed.

https://www.trustwave.com/media/19395/picture10yu.png?v=0.0.1
Phishing page with OTP request

Any code entered by the victim will fail, and if the “Need another way to authenticate?” button is pressed, the site will redirect to the real Facebook site.

According to Trustwave, multiple Facebook profiles have fake messages that look to be support pages and direct users to phishing websites.

Various Facebook accounts promoting the same fake alerts
Various Facebook accounts promoting the same fake alerts 

Therefore, these fake Facebook ‘Violation’ notifications use real Facebook pages to redirect to external phishing sites. Users are urged to take extreme caution when receiving false violation alerts and to not fall for the initial links’ seeming legitimacy.

Secure Web Gateway – Web Filter Rules, Activity Tracking & Malware Protection – Download Free E-Book

Gurubaran
Gurubaran
Gurubaran is a co-founder of Cyber Security News and GBHackers On Security. He has 10+ years of experience as a Security Consultant, Editor, and Analyst in cybersecurity, technology, and communications.

Latest articles

10,000 WordPress Websites Hacked to Distributing MacOS and Microsoft Malware

Over 10,000 WordPress websites have been hijacked to deliver malicious software targeting both macOS...

New RDP Exploit Allows Attackers to Take Over Windows and Browser Sessions

Cybersecurity experts have uncovered a new exploit leveraging the widely used Remote Desktop Protocol...

New SMS-Based Phishing Tool ‘DevilTraff’ Enables Mass Cyber Attacks

Cybersecurity experts are sounding the alarm about a new SMS-based phishing tool, Devil-Traff, that...

DeepSeek Database Publicly Exposed Sensitive Information, Secret Keys & Logs

Experts at Wiz Research have identified a publicly exposed ClickHouse database belonging to DeepSeek,...

API Security Webinar

Free Webinar - DevSecOps Hacks

By embedding security into your CI/CD workflows, you can shift left, streamline your DevSecOps processes, and release secure applications faster—all while saving time and resources.

In this webinar, join Phani Deepak Akella ( VP of Marketing ) and Karthik Krishnamoorthy (CTO), Indusface as they explores best practices for integrating application security into your CI/CD workflows using tools like Jenkins and Jira.

Discussion points

Automate security scans as part of the CI/CD pipeline.
Get real-time, actionable insights into vulnerabilities.
Prioritize and track fixes directly in Jira, enhancing collaboration.
Reduce risks and costs by addressing vulnerabilities pre-production.

More like this

10,000 WordPress Websites Hacked to Distributing MacOS and Microsoft Malware

Over 10,000 WordPress websites have been hijacked to deliver malicious software targeting both macOS...

New RDP Exploit Allows Attackers to Take Over Windows and Browser Sessions

Cybersecurity experts have uncovered a new exploit leveraging the widely used Remote Desktop Protocol...

New SMS-Based Phishing Tool ‘DevilTraff’ Enables Mass Cyber Attacks

Cybersecurity experts are sounding the alarm about a new SMS-based phishing tool, Devil-Traff, that...