These Dangerous Scammers Don’t Even Bother to Hide Their Crimes
“Yahoo Boy” cybercriminals are openly running dozens of scams across Facebook, WhatsApp, Telegram, TikTok, YouTube, and more.
DNS Used to Hide Fake Investment Platform Schemes | Infoblox
Learn how the threat actor Savvy Seahorse Facebook ads to lure users to fake investment platforms and leverages DNS to allow their attacks to persist for years.
New Python NodeStealer Goes Beyond Facebook Credentials, Now Stealing All Browser Cookies and Login Credentials
Netskope Threat Labs is tracking a campaign that uses malicious Python scripts to steal Facebook users’ credentials and browser data. This campaign targets Facebook business accounts with bogus Facebook messages with a malicious file attached. The attacks are reaching victims mainly in Southern Europe and North America across different segments, led by the manufacturing services and technology sectors.
“MrTonyScam” — Botnet of Facebook Users Launch High-Intent Messenger Phishing Attack on Business Accounts
Facebook’s Messenger platform has been heavily abused in the past month to spread endless messages with malicious attachments from a swarm of fake and hijacked personal accounts. These threat actors are targeting millions of business accounts on Facebook’s platform — from highly-rated marketplace sellers to large corporations, with fake business inquiries, achieving a staggering “success rate” with approximately 1 out of 70 infected!
Raising Online Defenses Through Transparency and Collaboration | Meta
We're sharing a look into our defense strategy and the latest news on how we build it into our products. A recent study shows that de-platforming hate networks reduces consumption and production of hateful content on Facebook and diminishes the ability of these hate networks to operate online. We’re sharing new threat research on two of the largest known covert influence operations in the world from China and Russia, targeting 50+ apps and countries, including the US. * We added new transparency features to Threads, including state-controlled media labels to help people know exactly who they interact with on the new app.
Pro-Russia Facebook Disinfo Network Targets Francophone Africa
The pages promote Russia’s line on the war in Ukraine to more than 4 million followers, casting doubt on Meta’s pledge to combat foreign influence campaigns.
NHS data breach: trusts shared patient details with Facebook without consent | Health | The Guardian
Observer investigation reveals Meta Pixel tool passed on private details of web browsing on medical sites
Meta’s Ad Practices Ruled Illegal Under E.U. Law
The decision is one of the most consequential issued under the E.U.’s landmark data-protection law and creates a new business headwind for the social media giant.
Schoolyard Bully Trojan Facebook Credential Stealer - Zimperium
Zimperium zLabs has discovered a new Android threat campaign, the Schoolyard Bully Trojan, which has been active since 2018 and has spread to over 300,000 victims and is specifically targeting Facebook credentials. To learn more about this new threat, read more on our blog.
New PHP Variant of Ducktail Infostealer Targeting Facebook Business Accounts
ThreatLabz has discovered, hiding in app stores, a PHP variant of the Ducktail infostealer used to hijack Facebook Business accounts.
Twitter and Facebook restricted in Russia amid conflict with Ukraine
NetBlocks metrics confirm the restriction of Twitter in Russia from the morning of Saturday 26 February 2022. Facebook servers have subsequently been restricted as of Sunday. The restrictions are in ...
Facebook, Twitter remove disinformation accounts targeting Ukrainians
The larger of the two disinformation groups operated in Russia, as well as the Russian-dominated Donbas and Crimea regions of Ukraine.
Meta to Pay $90 Million to Settle Facebook Data Privacy Lawsuit
Meta will pay $90 million to settle litigation over Facebook's use of cookies to track users’ internet use even after they had logged off.
Meta’s Ad Practices Ruled Illegal Under E.U. Law
The decision is one of the most consequential issued under the E.U.’s landmark data-protection law and creates a new business headwind for the social media giant.
Schoolyard Bully Trojan Facebook Credential Stealer - Zimperium
Zimperium zLabs has discovered a new Android threat campaign, the Schoolyard Bully Trojan, which has been active since 2018 and has spread to over 300,000 victims and is specifically targeting Facebook credentials. To learn more about this new threat, read more on our blog.
New PHP Variant of Ducktail Infostealer Targeting Facebook Business Accounts
ThreatLabz has discovered, hiding in app stores, a PHP variant of the Ducktail infostealer used to hijack Facebook Business accounts.
Twitter and Facebook restricted in Russia amid conflict with Ukraine
NetBlocks metrics confirm the restriction of Twitter in Russia from the morning of Saturday 26 February 2022. Facebook servers have subsequently been restricted as of Sunday. The restrictions are in ...
Facebook, Twitter remove disinformation accounts targeting Ukrainians
The larger of the two disinformation groups operated in Russia, as well as the Russian-dominated Donbas and Crimea regions of Ukraine.
Meta to Pay $90 Million to Settle Facebook Data Privacy Lawsuit
Meta will pay $90 million to settle litigation over Facebook's use of cookies to track users’ internet use even after they had logged off.
Twitter and Facebook restricted in Russia amid conflict with Ukraine
NetBlocks metrics confirm the restriction of Twitter in Russia from the morning of Saturday 26 February 2022. Facebook servers have subsequently been restricted as of Sunday. The restrictions are in ...
Facebook, Twitter remove disinformation accounts targeting Ukrainians
The larger of the two disinformation groups operated in Russia, as well as the Russian-dominated Donbas and Crimea regions of Ukraine.
Meta to Pay $90 Million to Settle Facebook Data Privacy Lawsuit
Meta will pay $90 million to settle litigation over Facebook's use of cookies to track users’ internet use even after they had logged off.