Phish for Social Media & Other Account Passwords with Blackeye

From prodefence.org

Social media accounts are a favorite target for hackers, and the most effective tactics for attacking accounts on websites like FacebookInstagram, and Twitter are often based on phishing. These password-stealing attacks rely on tricking users into entering their passwords into a convincing fake webpage, and they have become increasingly easy to make thanks to tools like BlackEye.

BlackEye is a tool to rapidly generate phishing pages that target social media websites, making it much easier to phish targets of opportunity on the same network. After redirecting a target to the phishing page, it’s easy to capture passwords to social media accounts harvested from unwitting victims.

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