Meta, the parent company of Facebook, announced that it has launched a lawsuit against a group of scammers involved in a “phishing” scam with which they have created up to 39,000 fake web pages that pose as the login of their platforms.
As the company mentioned in a statement, with this complaint, filed before a federal court in California (United States), it seeks to take legal action against phishing attacks “designed to trick people into sharing their login credentials in Fake Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp login pages. “
To carry out these attacks, apparently legitimate websites are created where victims are persuaded to enter personal data and other confidential information, such as a password or an email address.
In this statement, Meta revealed that “reports of attacks have been increasing throughout the industry,” which is why the company has made the decision to sue these practices “to discover the identities of the people behind the attack and stop their harmful behavior “.
Source: dpa
