Some Phishers Targeting Owners of Large Facebook Groups

Although there have been a couple of “traditional” Facebook phishing attacks making the rounds in the news this week, we’re also hearing of more slightly sophisticated scams targeted at owners of large Facebook groups.

Here’s how it works: As you may expect, owners of large Facebook groups get inbound marketing or partnership proposals all the time. However, now some phishers are making offers to owners that include links to password phishing sites. Once the login credentials are obtained, the phishers don’t send out masses of messages like traditional worms.

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