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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.
Researchers discovered spyware designed to steal from Android devices and from Telegram mods can also reach WhatsApp users.
Compromised Facebook business accounts are being used to run bogus ads that employ "revealing photos of young women" as lures to trick victims into downloading an updated version of a malware called NodeStealer
Cybersecurity researchers have unearthed a number of WhatsApp mods for Android that come fitted with a spyware module dubbed CanesSpy
Kaspersky said that between October 5 and 31 alone, it intercepted over 340,000 attacks
The European Data Protection Board has extended the temporary ban on targeted advertising on Facebook and Instagram, imposed by the Norwegian Data Protection Authority (DPA) in July. [...]
If you're in the EU, EEA, or Switzerland From November, it will be possible to pay Meta to stop shoveling ads in your Instagram or Facebook feeds and slurping your data for marketing purposes so long as you live in the EU, EEA, or Switzerland.…
Meta on Monday announced plans to offer an ad-free option to access Facebook and Instagram for users in the European Union (EU), European Economic Area (EEA), and Switzerland to comply with "evolving" data protection regulations in the region