Meta (formerly Facebook) has announced that it has taken legal action to disrupt a widespread phishing campaign.
The American company said in an official statement, yesterday, Monday, that it filed a federal lawsuit in order to reveal the identities of a group of people, who created more than 39,000 sites designed to deceive users of its sites, “Facebook”, “WhatsApp” and “Instagram” into paying them to obtain fraud. their login information.
Meta indicated that the scammers used the relay service “Ngrok” in order to redirect people to their websites, in a way that allows them to hide their actions.
“This enabled them to conceal the true location of the phishing sites and the identities of the online hosting providers and the defendants,” she said in her statement.
In March, Facebook began working with the relay service Ngrok to suspend thousands of links linked to the phishing campaign.
And Meta’s sites weren’t the only high-profile brands affected by phishing. In October, Google reported a massive phishing campaign that attempted to steal YouTube creator login cookies. , which enabled them to access the username and passwords, according to The Verge.