"(...) after Facebook users were targeted in the past with a 'look like you'," appear in this video "phishing campaign, a similar attempt is circulating on other networks these days. Messages usually contain a malicious link, which the sender claims to be a video or a picture of the person to whom the message was sent.The text of the received message can be in both Romanian and English. The link does NOT lead to the promised clip. the real thing you are about to access, "say cybersecurity experts.
They say that in some cases, the link redirects the person to a phishing site, where the authentication data can be taken to the Facebook account of the potential victim. Other links may lead to the installation of viruses.
"For example, if you are redirected to a fraudulent login and enter your credentials, they are uploaded to a remote online server that cybercriminals have access to. They can use them directly to try to gain access to your account, from which they can extract additional data or launch other attacks, or resell them on hacker forums. In addition, accessing the link often redirects the victim of the attack through multiple compromised websites or even designed to spread various types of cyber traps, including #spyware, #adware or even #ransomware. At the same time, the message will be sent to your social media contacts and the friends you have in your account list will be in danger of falling into the same trap. That is why it is important, in addition to avoiding accessing links from unknown sources or unsolicited messages, to have a security solution installed on the devices, with which to scan such resources that you are not sure about ", the quoted source notes.