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Privacy protection, Security

Meta’s pay-or-consent model hides ‘massive illegal data processing ops’: lawsuit

February 29, 2024

Via: The Register

Consumer groups are filing legal complaints in the EU in a coordinated attempt to use data protection law to stop Meta from giving local users a “fake choice” between paying up and consenting to being profiled and tracked via data […]


Application security, Security

Facebook, Instagram now mine web links you visit to fuel targeted ads

January 8, 2024

Via: The Register

We gather everyone’s still easing themselves into the New Year. Deleting screens of unread emails, putting on a brave face in meetings, and slowly getting up to speed. While you’re recovering from the Christmas break, Meta has been busy introducing […]


Cyber-crime, Phishing

Phishers Exploit Salesforce’s Email Services Zero-Day in Targeted Facebook Campaign

August 2, 2023

Via: The Hacker News

A sophisticated Facebook phishing campaign has been observed exploiting a zero-day flaw in Salesforce’s email services, allowing threat actors to craft targeted phishing messages using the company’s domain and infrastructure. “Those phishing campaigns cleverly evade conventional detection methods by chaining […]


Threats & Malware, Virus & Malware

New S1deload Malware Hijacking Users’ Social Media Accounts and Mining Cryptocurrency

February 23, 2023

Via: The Hacker News

An active malware campaign has set its sights on Facebook and YouTube users by leveraging a new information stealer to hijack the accounts and abuse the systems’ resources to mine cryptocurrency. Bitdefender is calling the malware S1deload Stealer for its […]


Data loss, Threats & Malware

Facebook to Pay $725 Million to settle Lawsuit Over Cambridge Analytica Data Leak

December 27, 2022

Via: The Hacker News

Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, has agreed to pay $725 million to settle a long-running class-action lawsuit filed in 2018. The legal dispute sprang up in response to revelations that the social media giant allowed […]


Cyber-crime, Phishing

This devious phishing campaign uses Facebook messages to trick its victims

December 17, 2022

Via: TechRadar

A newly-discovered phishing campaign has been found using fake copyright infringement notices from Facebook to dupe users into giving away their account details. According to analysts from cybersecurity firm Trustwave, these fake messages claim that the user will have their […]


Mobile, Mobile security, Threats & Malware, Virus & Malware

Schoolyard Bully Trojan Apps Stole Facebook Credentials from Over 300,000 Android Users

December 1, 2022

Via: The Hacker News

More than 300,000 users across 71 countries have been victimized by a new Android threat campaign called the Schoolyard Bully Trojan. Mainly designed to steal Facebook credentials, the malware is camouflaged as legitimate education-themed applications to lure unsuspecting users into […]


Cyber-crime, Phishing

Phishers take aim at Facebook page owners

September 14, 2022

Via: Help Net Security

Phishers are looking to trick owners of Facebook pages with fake notices from the social network (i.e., Meta, the company behind Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp), in an attempt to get them to part with sensitive information. The method they are […]


Data loss, Threats & Malware

Novant Health Notifies Patients of Potential Data Privacy Incident

August 23, 2022

Via: Dark Reading

Novant Health shared that, in an effort to be as transparent as possible, it is mailing letters to some of its patients following possible disclosure of protected health information (PHI) resulting from an incorrect configuration of a pixel, an online […]


Cyber warfare, Cyber-crime

Meta Cracks Down on Cyber Espionage Operations in South Asia Abusing Facebook

August 8, 2022

Via: The Hacker News

Facebook parent company Meta disclosed that it took action against two espionage operations in South Asia that leveraged its social media platforms to distribute malware to potential targets. The first set of activities is what the company described as “persistent […]


Cyber-crime, Phishing

Phishing Attacks Skyrocket with Microsoft and Facebook as Most Abused Brands

July 26, 2022

Via: Threat Post

The bloom is back on phishing attacks with criminals doubling down on fake messages abusing popular brands compared to the year prior. Microsoft, Facebook and French bank Crédit Agricole are the top abused brands in attacks, according to study on […]


Cyber-crime, Phishing

“Look what I found here” phish targets Facebook users

May 17, 2022

Via: Malwarebytes

Facebook-themed messages are a frequent source of bogus links from both spam and compromised accounts. Whether you receive the messages via SMS, the Messenger app, or just inside regular web chat, it pays to be careful. A wide variety of […]


Privacy protection, Security

France Hits Google, Facebook With Huge Fines Over ‘Cookies’

January 6, 2022

Via: Security Week

The 150-million-euro fine imposed on Google was a record by France’s National Commission for Information Technology and Freedom (CNIL), beating a previous cookie-related fine of 100 million euros against the company in December 2020. Facebook was handed a 60-million-euro fine. […]


Cyber warfare, Cyber-crime

Researchers Detail How Pakistani Hackers Targeting Indian and Afghan Governments

December 3, 2021

Via: The Hacker News

A Pakistani threat actor successfully socially engineered a number of ministries in Afghanistan and a shared government computer in India to steal sensitive Google, Twitter, and Facebook credentials from its targets and stealthily obtain access to government portals. Malwarebytes’ latest […]


Hacker, Threats & Malware

Facebook Sues Ukrainian for Scraping, Selling Data of 178 Million Users

October 25, 2021

Via: Security Week

The defendant is Alexander Alexandrovich Solonchenko, whom Facebook says used the online monikers “Solomame” and “barak_obama” on the RaidForums hacker forum, where he allegedly sold illegally obtained information. According to the social media giant, Solonchenko, who worked as a freelance […]


Privacy protection, Security

Has Facebook Sidestepped GDPR’s User Consent Requirements?

October 19, 2021

Via: Security Week

This is achieved by simply adding data processing specifications into its general terms and conditions and effectively changing acceptance into a contract. The argument is that since there is now a contract between Facebook and the user, the usual understanding […]


Cyber-crime, Identity theft

Over a billion Facebook users have data sold on the dark web

October 5, 2021

Via: TechRadar

Personally identifiable information (PII) of over 1,5 billion Facebook users is reportedly being sold on a popular underground forum, according to cybersecurity and privacy watchdogs. The data, which has reportedly been collected through web scraping, includes names, emails, phone numbers, […]


Application security, Security

Facebook Announces Encrypted WhatsApp Backups

September 13, 2021

Via: Security Week

While a user can easily turn on WhatsApp on any new device, given that accounts are phone number-based, conversation history isn’t available unless a backup was created on the previous device. Users can set time intervals for the creation of […]


Editorial

Is Facebook Trying to Analyze Users’ Encrypted Messages?

August 30, 2021

Via: Natalie Dunn

In its many years of being the leading app for fast and simple online chat, WhatsApp has been through a lot, including a privacy policy that has sparked some concern. The Facebook-owned platform boasts end-to-end encrypted messaging that provides users […]


Privacy protection, Security

Your data, your choice

August 27, 2021

Via: Help Net Security

In 2021, “personal data” is anything but “personal”. We don’t own our personal data and we have limited control over what happens to it. Currently, the onus of responsibility on how to use, protect, sell and leverage our personal data […]