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Facebook Chat-Based Phishing Attack Impersonates Facebook Security

A new phishing attack that’s spreading through Facebook chat modifies hijacked accounts in order to impersonate the social network’s security team. The attackers replace the profile picture of compromised accounts with the Facebook logo and change their names to a variation of “Facebook Security” written with special Unicode characters. After the victim’s profile name and picture get changed, the attackers send out a chat message to all of their contacts informing them that their accounts will be suspended unless they re-confirm their information. The rogue messages appear to be signed by “The Facebook Team””]

Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2130656/facebook-chat-based-phishing-attack-impersonates-facebook-security.html

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