New scheme of phishing attacks on Facebook users

Experts have identified a new scheme of phishing attacks on Facebook users

  According to available information, cybercriminals are using a new scheme of phishing attacks on users Facebook. According to The Hacker News, cybercriminals use specially created page verification, placed them on the site apps.facebook.com.

Potential victims are asked to link [https_://apps.facebook.com/verify-pages], ostensibly to verify Facebook account. In fact, the victims of cybercriminals get to a phishing site. Filling out a special form of "verification", they pass their credentials Facebook accounts criminals then redirect victims to legitimate page "Terms and Conditions Facebook".

Advertising TDoS-attack appeared on public forums

Attackers posted a net advertising and pricing of services

Until recently, an attacker wishing to embark on cybercrime, but does not have the necessary knowledge, looking for ways to get to the private specialized forums on topics of interest to him and watch "sit" in the chat rooms to gain the trust of potential "colleagues." However, according to expert Webroot Dancho Danchev, these times have sunk into oblivion.

According to him, now, in order to attract new customers malicious developer tools and services are beginning to offer their services in public forums. Among the proposals, bearing diverse, there are Denial-of-service telecommunication networks (Telecommunications Denial of Service, TDoS)

TDoS-attack used when criminals get their money from the bank accounts of victims, conducting fraudulent transactions. If the illegal operation is detected, the bank can block it before the scammer will try to get the stolen money, so in order to prevent communication between the client and the bank, either alone criminals carry TDoS-attack, or hire someone who at it specializes.