How a wide scale Facebook campaign stole 1 million credentials. [Research Saturday]

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🗓️ 27 August 2022

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Nick Ascoli from ForeTrace in a partnership with PIXM sits down with Dave to provide insight on their team's work on "Phishing tactics: how a threat actor stole 1 million credentials in 4 months." During routine analysis, researchers discovered the connection between the pages using PIXM’s deep html analysis feature, which enabled them to view and analyze the underlying code on the pages after they were flagged as phishing. This led to the ensuing investigation, which was led by PIXM’s threat research team with assistance from Nick Ascoli. The research states "we uncovered a campaign whose scale has potentially impacted hundreds of millions of facebook users, and whose complexity offer insight into the evolving nature of phishing operations, especially from a technical perspective." The research can be found here: Phishing tactics: how a threat actor stole 1M credentials in 4 months

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1:27.0	I'm Dave Bitner and this is our weekly conversation with researchers and analysts tracking
1:31.9	down the threats and vulnerabilities solving some of the hard problems of protecting ourselves in a rapidly evolving cyberspace.
1:39.0	Thanks for joining us. In early 2021, we had a lot of detections in the platform for fake Facebook login portals that always had a very similar structure to them.
1:58.0	That's Nick Askoly. He's a founder and threat researcher at Fortrace.
2:02.0	The research we're discussing today
2:04.4	is titled Fishing Tactics, how a threat actor stole one million credentials in
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