{"id":166480,"date":"2023-06-27T02:23:18","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T07:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/facebook-users-targeted-in-copyright-infringement-scam"},"modified":"2023-06-27T02:23:18","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T07:23:18","slug":"facebook-users-targeted-in-copyright-infringement-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/facebook-users-targeted-in-copyright-infringement-scam","title":{"rendered":"Facebook users targeted in copyright infringement scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VzPEx0mlePQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Shouldn\u2019t Facebook have alerted us and not CBS News?<\/p>\n<p>The fake notice went on to say that a photo uploaded to the account\u2019s page violated Facebook\u2019s copyright infringement policy and that the decision could be appealed within 24 hours.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong><em>Hackers are sending fake copyright infringement notices to Facebook users to steal their credentials, a new research by Avanan has found. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a phishing attack that primarily targets organization accounts, users would receive fake copyright infringement notices threatening to terminate their pages \u2013 unless they immediately take action.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour account has been suspended. This is because your account, or activity on it, doesn\u2019t follow our Community Standards,\u201d read one of such messages shared by Avanan.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/facebook-users-targeted-in-copyright-infringement-scam\">Continue reading \u201cFacebook users targeted in copyright infringement scam\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shouldn\u2019t Facebook have alerted us and not CBS News? The fake notice went on to say that a photo uploaded to the account\u2019s page violated Facebook\u2019s copyright infringement policy and that the decision could be appealed within 24 hours. Hackers are sending fake copyright infringement notices to Facebook users to steal their credentials, a new [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}