{"id":5482,"date":"2025-09-11T11:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T11:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/09\/11\/fake-madgicx-plus-and-socialmetrics-extensions-are-hijacking-meta-business-accounts\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T11:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T11:13:09","slug":"fake-madgicx-plus-and-socialmetrics-extensions-are-hijacking-meta-business-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/09\/11\/fake-madgicx-plus-and-socialmetrics-extensions-are-hijacking-meta-business-accounts\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake Madgicx Plus and SocialMetrics Extensions Are Hijacking Meta Business Accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have disclosed two new campaigns that are serving fake browser extensions using malicious ads and fake websites to steal sensitive data.<br \/>\nThe malvertising campaign, per Bitdefender, is designed to push fake &#8220;Meta Verified&#8221; browser extensions named SocialMetrics Pro that claim to unlock the blue check badge for Facebook and Instagram profiles. At least 37 malicious ads\u00a0Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed two new campaigns that are serving fake browser extensions using malicious ads and fake websites to steal sensitive data.<br \/>\nThe malvertising campaign, per Bitdefender, is designed to push fake &#8220;Meta Verified&#8221; browser extensions named SocialMetrics Pro that claim to unlock the blue check badge for Facebook and Instagram profiles. At least 37 malicious ads\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have disclosed two new campaigns that are serving fake browser extensions using malicious ads and fake websites to steal sensitive data. The malvertising campaign, per Bitdefender, is designed to push fake &#8220;Meta Verified&#8221; browser extensions named SocialMetrics Pro that claim to unlock the blue check badge for Facebook and Instagram profiles. At least&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/09\/11\/fake-madgicx-plus-and-socialmetrics-extensions-are-hijacking-meta-business-accounts\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fake Madgicx Plus and SocialMetrics Extensions Are Hijacking Meta Business Accounts<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5482"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}