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  • Jan 06, 2022

Meta introduces new Legal effort targeting Phishing Scammers

Meta is all set to launch a new legal procedure with the new federal lawsuit in California, against phishing scammers.

  • These scammers have been conducting attacks by tricking users into sharing their login credentials via fake login pages for Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp.
  • The phishing scheme was responsible for creating more than 39,000 websites citing login pages of Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp.
Meta adds that Meta the group used a relay service to redirect web traffic to their phishing websites ‘in a way that obscured their attack infrastructure’.

This in turn helped them identify the true location of the phishing websites.

Meta's move in this direction will play a key role in deterrence.

Read more at www.socialmediatoday.com

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