Another Facebook Phishing Site Areps.at Spreads, Blocked

Another phishing site is making the rounds on Facebook today, and this time it’s “areps.at” (not linked). However, like other phishing attacks on Facebook, Facebook started blocking all links to the site once its security systems detected its spread this morning.

Facebook doesn’t reveal how many people scams like these affect, but has said in the past that similar phishing attacks have reached “less than 1%” of users. 1% of 200 million is still a significant number of accounts, but it’s likely that Facebook discovered the site earlier than that.

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