| Filename | Israeli soldiers became victim of evaesdropping by Hamas via fake Facebook profiles |
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According to the official blog post of the Israel Defense Force (IDF), Hamas operatives used social website, Facebook, to lure their soldiers to download and use malicious apps on their phones that led to eavesdropping.
IDF soldiers received friend request from pretty ladies on Facebook, who seemed genuine and interested them. Women used to send them interesting photos of herself to convince them that they real.
And these photos were indeed real! but are stolen from real people's Facebook accounts.
Once they convince soldiers that she is real, their next step is to send them link to download the malicious payload app without letting them known anything.
The fake profile wants to continue talking to the soldiers but not on the Facebook, so she insists them to download a specific messaging app, if they wish to continue talking to them.
To continue talking to them, they tell them to use an app store apkpk to download a video chat app called Wowo Messenger.
The soldiers who were not tech savy were not able to point the glaring red flags there, and later found themselves a victim of powerful eavesdropping.
IDF's blog post wrote: "It can turn a mobile device into an open book- leaving contacts, apps, pictures, and files accessible to Hamas. What's more, it can stream video from the camera and audio from the microphone."
IDF soldiers received friend request from pretty ladies on Facebook, who seemed genuine and interested them. Women used to send them interesting photos of herself to convince them that they real.
And these photos were indeed real! but are stolen from real people's Facebook accounts.
Once they convince soldiers that she is real, their next step is to send them link to download the malicious payload app without letting them known anything.
The fake profile wants to continue talking to the soldiers but not on the Facebook, so she insists them to download a specific messaging app, if they wish to continue talking to them.
To continue talking to them, they tell them to use an app store apkpk to download a video chat app called Wowo Messenger.
The soldiers who were not tech savy were not able to point the glaring red flags there, and later found themselves a victim of powerful eavesdropping.
IDF's blog post wrote: "It can turn a mobile device into an open book- leaving contacts, apps, pictures, and files accessible to Hamas. What's more, it can stream video from the camera and audio from the microphone."
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