Remtasu is disguising itself as a tool to appropriate Facebook accounts

Feb. 10, 2016

Up until last year, it was common to encounter campaigns associated with known entities such as DIAN, Avianca and Falabella in e-mail attachments with names related to collection accounts and invoices, concealing themselves to look like Microsoft Office files.

Although this type of ruse remains a threat, we have uncovered new ones using different Social Engineering mechanisms, such as Facebook, and the constant desire of a lot of users to take control of accounts from this well-known social network.