A phishing campaign targets businesses to compromise Facebook and Instagram accounts with access to Meta Business Suite. In this Cyber Defense Magazine article, Michael Tyler discusses the tactics behind the campaign and shares tips to stay safe.
Originally published in Cyber Defense Magazine.
Excerpt:
“Like many phishing threats, this attack is initially delivered via email. The adversary stays with a tried-and-true approach; impersonate a legitimate service (in this case Meta) and threaten the restriction or closure of the organization’s business account due to policy violations. The adversary also takes basic steps to reinforce their fake identity, including modifying the Display Name section of the “From”: banking on the fact that the majority of email clients show this value most prominently, and hide or minimize the actual sending address.”
Read the full article here.