Facebook Messenger is the second largest messaging platform in the entire world, and if you are one of those who use it, then you should know about an extremely serious warning related to it. More precisely, we are talking about a new type of attack distributed in some countries among users who use Facebook Messenger, and because of it some people had their accounts stolen by hackers, some of which could not be recovered by people, unfortunately.
Facebook Messenger is a favorite target of hackers, just like WhatsApp, because of the large number of people who use the platform, so there is also a very large base of potential victims. This new attack is carried out by hackers by sending messages to various people, generally the contacts of an account that has been compromised, all to give people the confidence to access the malicious links, and thus compromise their accounts more easily.
Facebook Messenger: Serious WARNING Targeting Millions of People
Facebook Messenger has been at the center of attacks of this kind several times in the past, which also used the mass distribution of messages with malicious links among the contacts of compromised accounts. It is unlikely that you did not receive a message from a friend with an unknown link, which of course would lead you to a malicious website, and although attacks of this kind have stopped for some time, here it is at the end of 2021 Facebook Messenger has once again become a target for the distribution of these attacks.
Facebook Messenger is a perfect platform for distributing these types of messages because attackers also use people's curiosity, and above you can see an example of a malicious message of this kind. You can see that an attack based on people's natural curiosity is being used, and since it is easy to distribute attacks of this kind through Facebook Messenger, it is very possible that the attacks will intensify in the not too distant future, so it is good to be careful.
Facebook Messenger is currently available on iPhone and Android, and the applications can be downloaded through the App Store and Google Play Store right now.
