“MrTonyScam” — Botnet of Facebook Users Launch High-Intent Messenger Phishing Attack on Business…

“MrTonyScam” — Botnet of Facebook Users Launch High-Intent Messenger Phishing Attack on Business Accounts

By Oleg Zaytsev (Guardio Labs)

Facebook’s Messenger platform has been heavily abused in the past month to spread endless messages with malicious attachments from a swarm of fake and hijacked personal accounts. These threat actors are targeting millions of business accounts on Facebook’s platform — from highly-rated marketplace sellers to large corporations, with fake buisness inquieries, achieving a staggering “success rate” with approximately 1 …

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