Facebook is at the center of a warning issued by CERT-RO, the National Cyber Security Incident Response Center, due to new attempts to trick users into stealing their accounts. The social network Facebook is targeted by those who initiated this phishing attack, and CERT-RO claims that users must be very careful, and not be fooled because they could lose their accounts within the platform.
Facebook is used to distribute false information about various people within the platform, they being tagged in posts that refer to serious accidents in which the respective people were allegedly involved. When a person accesses that post on Facebook, they see a link to a page where they could see images from the accident, but in fact that is a page of hackers trying to steal user accounts.
Facebook: WARNING Made by CERT-RO
Facebook has copied a page for logging into accounts, the hackers failing to transform it into something authentic, the writing font, and the expressions themselves being a clear proof that the page does not belong to the company behind the social network. Despite this, people who are tricked into thinking that their friends or close relatives have been involved in a serious accident, after reading the Facebook post in which the people were tagged, could allow themselves to be tricked into login data on those pages.
"Recently, on CERT-RO's social media accounts, we received notifications from people who were tagged by friends in the network in posts that referred to some serious accidents. For more details, they are provided with a link. After accessing, the victim is redirected to a web page where they should enter their corresponding Facebook username and password, in order to be able to see the respective images from the accident. As can be seen, the graphics used by the attackers are clearly different from the legitimate login page, another red flag being the displayed domain, which is not facebook.com.”
Facebook is exploited in this way because it has a lot of users, many of them also being gullible, and those from CERT-RO warn us very seriously not to fall into the hackers' trap. Unfortunately, if your account has been stolen, the people from Facebook might refuse to help you recover it, even if you still have the email address left in the account, so take seriously the warning from CERT-RO and not you provide your data on unknown pages.