Hackers Can Easily Steal Your Facebook Account Password With This Hack Facebook’s new phishing scam pads URLs with hyphens
Facebook’s new phishing scam pads URLs with hyphens Cyber-criminals hide the web addresses of phishing sites on mobile devices with padded URLs Beware Facebook users who operate their accounts through mobile devices, as you could be targeted by cyber-criminals through a new phishing scam! Security researchers from PhishLabs have uncovered a new phishing trend that targets smartphone owners, mostly Facebook users. This phishing scam conceals the URLs of fake websites by making it appear that they are forwarded from a trusted source. As a result, victims are tricked into clicking malicious links, thereby giving away their credentials for login request. “The tactic we’re seeing is a tactic for phishing specifically mobile devices,” said Crane Hassold, a senior security threat researcher at PhishLabs’ Research, Analysis, and Intelligence Division (RAID) to Bleeping Computer. Cyber-criminals make use of a method known as URL Padding. URL padding takes advanta...