Hi, I’m Joe, your AI-generated newscaster, with bad news for all Facebook users:
you are being targeted. Online criminals has flooded the platform with phishing
links on clickbait posts - they would lead unsuspecting users to external websites,
and then thoroughly scam them out of hundreds of dollars with fake browser alerts.
What’s so special about this case, is that threat actors have abused Google Cloud Run to generate
new malicious links every few minutes, making it much harder to stop their activity. Google
Cloud Run is a managed computer platform that allows developers to ignore a need for a server
and focus on code instead. Threat actors likely didn’t even have to pay to use it:
Cloud Run offers first-time customers $300 in free credits and two million requests per month:
more than enough to create a load of malicious phishing links.
Clicking on one of those links without a VPN would lead you to a fake Microsoft alert screen,
using a 302 redirect for seamless website transition. This page will
notify you about a threat and urge to contact a customer support center,
obviously through a fake phone number, where a “support agent” will scam you out of your money.
Now you are prepared and thus - protected. To keep yourself up to date with the latest hacks,
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channel. Thanks for watching, and I’ll see you soon with another story.