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The AppSheet Heist: How Hackers Hijacked 30,000 Facebook Accounts via Google Platform

A sophisticated phishing relay leveraging Google AppSheet has successfully compromised tens of thousands of Facebook profiles for black-market resale.
By Blip Tech 1 min read

A large-scale cyberattack linked to Vietnamese actors has breached over 30,000 Facebook accounts by utilizing Google AppSheet as a deceptive relay for phishing emails. The campaign employs convincing Meta-themed lures to trick users into revealing their credentials, which are subsequently harvested and sold on illicit markets. By exploiting a legitimate Google service to bypass traditional email security filters, this operation underscores a sophisticated strategy of leveraging trusted cloud platforms to facilitate mass credential theft.

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