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Facebook Cracks Down on Spyware Vendors from U.S., China, Russia, Israel, and India

Meta Platforms disclosed that it took down no less than 200 covert influence operations since 2017 spanning roughly 70 countries across 42...

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Data Breach

Irish Regulator Fines Facebook $277 Million for Leak of Half a Billion Users’ Data

Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has levied fines of €265 million ($277 million) against Meta Platforms for failing to safeguard the personal...

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Malware

Ducktail Malware Operation Evolves with New Malicious Capabilities

The operators of the Ducktail information stealer have demonstrated a “relentless willingness to persist” and continued to update their malware as part...

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Cyber Attack

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

Facebook parent company Meta disclosed that it took action against two espionage operations in South Asia that leveraged its social media platforms...

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Malware

New Ducktail Infostealer Malware Targeting Facebook Business and Ad Accounts

Facebook business and advertising accounts are at the receiving end of an ongoing campaign dubbed Ducktail designed to seize control as part...

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Malware

Cytrox’s Predator Spyware Targeted Android Users with Zero-Day Exploits

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) on Thursday pointed fingers at a North Macedonian spyware developer named Cytrox for developing exploits against five...

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Data Breach

Facebook Hit With $18.6 Million GDPR Fine Over 12 Data Breaches in 2018

The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) on Tuesday slapped Facebook and WhatsApp owner Meta Platforms a fine of €17 million (~$18.6 million)...

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Malware

Facebook Bans Pakistani and Syrian Hacker Groups for Abusing its Platform

Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, announced Tuesday that it took action against four separate malicious cyber groups from Pakistan and...

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Surveillance

Facebook to end facial recognition and delete billions of records

Facebook has announced that it will shut down its Facial Recognition System and delete the templates of over 1 billion people stored...

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Geek

Facebook sues Ukrainian man for scraping and selling 178m users’ data

Facebook tracked down the programmer after he mistakenly used his contact information on email and job portals. On October 21, 2021, Facebook...

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Geek

Facebook down with Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp service disruption

Facebook down? Yes, Facebook is down along with Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus VR due to DNS-related issues. You are not alone;...

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Data Security

Hackers posed as aerobics instructors in malware attack on defense contractors

Iranian hackers used social media platforms especially Facebook to target employees of an aerospace defense contractor to steal their login credentials. Proofpoint...

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Geek

WhatsApp Introduces View Once Feature for Videos and Photos

View Once feature will keep the images accessible for a maximum of 14 days and expire afterward. It’s quite amusing that Facebook...

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Cyber Crime

9 apps with 6M installs stole Facebook logins of Android users

All 9 malicious apps were found on Google Play Store. In recent news, a research team of malware analysts from Dr. Web...

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Data Security

Hackers could access photos, videos without unlocking your phone

The vulnerability existed in the Facebook Messenger Rooms video chat feature and exposed Android smartphone users to intrusion. Nepalese security researcher Samip...

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Malware

Beware! New Android Malware Hacks Thousands of Facebook Accounts

A new Android trojan has been found to compromise Facebook accounts of over 10,000 users in at least 144 countries since March...

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How To

How to protect your privacy on a smartphone: 12 tips & tricks

Nowadays, privacy on your smartphone plays an increasingly important role in our daily life. Large tech companies want to know more about...

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Vulnerabilities

Instagram‌ ‌Bug Allowed Anyone to View Private Accounts Without Following Them

Instagram has patched a new flaw that allowed anyone to view archived posts and stories posted by private accounts without having to...

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Surveillance

Facebook blocks Signal from using ads to show Instagram data collection

User privacy and social media have always had a complex relationship, spawning endless debates on regulation, tracking online user behavior, and data...