A Newly Discovered Malware Hijacks Facebook Business Accounts - TechCrunch

An ongoing cybercriminal operation is targeting digital marketing and human resources professionals to hijack Facebook Business accounts using a newly discovered data-stealing malware.

Researchers from WithSecure, the corporate spin-off of security giant F-Secure, discovered the ongoing campaign, which they dubbed Ducktail, and found evidence that a Vietnamese threat actor had been developing and distributing the malware since the second half of 2021. The company added that the motive for the operations appears to be purely financial.

The threat actor first searches for targets through LinkedIn, where it selects employees likely to have high-level access to Facebook Business accounts, particularly those with the highest level of access.

"We believe that ducktail operators carefully select a small number of targets to increase their chances of success and go unnoticed," said Mohammad Kazem Hassan Nejad, researcher and malware analyst at...

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