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Facebook is a social networking platform for user profiles, messaging, groups, pages, and content sharing, delivered through web and mobile clients and interfaces for third-party applications. Its security relevance comes from concentrating identity, relationships, communications, and personal data in a connected account ecosystem; compromise can expose private content or enable impersonation and targeted social engineering.
Security coverage includes vulnerabilities in Facebook’s clients, APIs, authentication, and account-recovery workflows, along with abuse of messages, groups, applications, and advertising features to distribute phishing or malicious links. Practitioners should distinguish platform flaws from credential theft or fraudulent content, assessing advisories by affected component, exploitability, and required updates. Privacy controls and third-party permissions reduce exposure but do not replace unique credentials, multi-factor authentication, session review, and prompt reporting; investigations may also require platform logs and preserved account or message evidence.
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Through AI-driven code conversion and a layered infection chain involving different file formats and scripting languages, the threat actors behind Water Saci are quickly upgrading their malware delivery and propagation methods across WhatsApp in Brazil.
Continuous investigation on the Water Saci campaign reveals innovative email-based C&C system, multi-vector persistence, and real-time command capabilities that allow attackers to orchestrate coordinated botnet operations, gather detailed campaign intelligence, and dynamically control malware activity across multiple infected machines.
Trend™ Research has identified an active campaign spreading via WhatsApp through a ZIP file attachment. When executed, the malware establishes persistence and hijacks the compromised WhatsApp account to send copies of itself to the victim’s contacts.
In this blog entry, Trend Micro’s Managed XDR team discuss their investigation into how the latest variant of NodeStealer is delivered through spear-phishing attacks, potentially leading to malware execution, data theft, and the exfiltration of sensitive information via Telegram.
We analyze an information stealer written in Node.js, packaged into an executable, exfiltrated stolen data via both Telegram bot API and a C&C server, and employed GraphQL as a channel for C&C communication.
In this entry, we discuss how a threat actor abuses paid Facebook promotions featuring LLMs to spread malicious code, with the goal of installing a malicious browser add-on and stealing victims’ credentials.
The metaverse is an immersive digital world of augmented reality. While supporting a virtual universe relies on cloud storage, questions arise on how this will affect cloud security. Gain valuable insight on security concerns surrounding the metaverse now and in the near future.
The metaverse is coming—but what does that mean for network infrastructure? We explore expected changes, network challenges, and tips for enhancing network security to minimize cyber risk across the attack surface.
This report shares threat predictions concerning a rapidly evolving area of the physical and digital word – the metaverse. We refine our definition of the metaverse, while identifying threats against it and inside it.
Understand the cybersecurity risks in the Metaverse
We recently observed a number of apps on Google Play designed to perform malicious activities such as stealing user credentials and other sensitive user information, including private keys.