XPost: misc.consumers   
   From: nathansmith@posteo.com   
      
   Fritz Wuehler    
   writes:   
      
   > More than 5,000 businesses that use Facebook for advertising were   
   > bombarded by tens of thousands of phishing emails in a credential- and   
   > data-stealing campaign.   
   >   
   > Check Point researchers say that they spotted about 40,000 phishing   
   > emails sent to their customers across the US, Europe, Canada, and   
   > Australia - and they were sent from the legitimate facebookmail.com   
   > domain.   
   >   
   > While most organizations received fewer than 300 messages, one company   
   > alone was hit with more than 4,200.   
   >   
   > To pull off this phishing expedition, the criminals created shell   
   > Facebook Business pages representing businesses that don't exist, and   
   > then used the Business invitation feature to send phishing emails that   
   > look like the real deal.   
   >   
   > More here:   
   > https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/10/5k_facebook_advertising_customer   
   > s_phishing/   
      
   Fake Facebook seems to take after his big brother real Facebook. Real   
   Facebook steals data from billions instead of a petty thousands.   
      
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