Fraud Using Erotic Advertising on Facebook

In the early 2000s, there was an MSN craze in our country as well as in the world. ““How nice it was in the past, we would share the songs we listened to and send vibrations to our friends who we wanted to respond to, our kames ball was 9 times bigger.” Leaving aside the goygoys, there was also a terrible figure of that period: Ayça_22. “Ayça_22 is logged in,” which looks like an MSN notification. Its pop-ups infected many people’s computers with viruses.

The year is 2023, those young men have now become men aged 45 and over and they are hanging out on Facebook. Following them is the new and global version of Ayça_22. to facebook It looks like it’s gone.

A fraud method targeting men over 45 was discovered

According to research conducted by Bitdefender, hackers attacked the computers of their unsuspecting victims in an attack via Facebook. Malware used to steal data They are sending. To do this, they direct people to various links where they claim they can access erotic content. According to the investigations, the target audiences are also Men aged 45 or older.

Researchers so far more than 100 thousand They state that it is a potential download. Sensitive data, payment information and crypto wallet information are stolen from the computers of people affected by these attacks.

The system works as follows: First of all, a fake account, a fake profile, is created. In this profile, a blurred photo of a woman is placed as the profile photo. Then create your profile from a previously compromised business account and create a new, Advertising unblurred photos is being done. Even to attract attention, “Check it out before it gets deleted!” Expressions such as etc. are used. Those who click on the link download a file called Photo Album.exe. This application file is also NodeStealer It downloads a copy of the malicious software to the computer.

In the first 24 hours of the attack, the attackers were completely 15,000 devices It turned out to be effective. Facebook is trying to stop such attacks. Experts also emphasize that one should be careful about such content and stay away from those that look suspicious.