I’m specifically referring to things like the ads for cheap sunglasses that I’ve been seeing for what seems like over a decade now and the more recent “look who died in an accident” video links that three of my elderly aunts have had on their accounts in the last year. Who is “hacking” these accounts and what are they gaining from it?
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Just like others have mentioned, very few accounts get hacked and it’s usually some phishing page that looks like Facebook and people type in their credentials and that’s how they get stolen.
Attackers would login and start posting spam, with the sunglasses I suspect that it’s some fake website where people think they are purchasing raybans but end up with their credit card stolen or some cheap Chinese sunglasses for $20 so the attackers just make profit. The other case where attackers post a link to a supposedly video of somebody that died is most likely another scam website that can have a million of things like some other phishing pages or even malware that looks for vulnerabilities in the browser or operating system and exploits them. Most like it’s just a website that redirects visitors to some affiliate link or ad and attackers make money from those ads.
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