Info Security Magazine
3 years, 7 months ago
Trojan Steals Facebook Details from Over 300K Victims
"Schoolyard Bully" has been active since 2018
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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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Bleeping Computer
3 years, 7 months ago
Android malware infected 300,000 devices to steal Facebook accounts
An Android malware campaign masquerading as reading and education apps has been underway since 2018, attempting to steal Facebook account credentials from infected devices. [...]
Info Security Magazine
3 years, 7 months ago
WhatsApp Files on Dark Web Show Millions of Records For Sale
The list went on sale for four days and is now being distributed for free among dark web users
The Hacker News
3 years, 7 months ago
Schoolyard Bully Trojan Apps Stole Facebook Credentials from Over 300,000 Android Users
More than 300,000 users across 71 countries have been victimized by a new Android threat campaign called the Schoolyard Bully Trojan
The Hacker News
3 years, 7 months ago
Schoolyard Bully Trojan Apps Stole Facebook Credentials from Over 300,000 Android Users
More than 300,000 users across 71 countries have been victimized by a new Android threat campaign called the Schoolyard Bully Trojan
The Hacker News
3 years, 7 months ago
This Malicious App Abused Hacked Devices to Create Fake Accounts on Multiple Platforms
A malicious Android SMS application discovered on the Google Play Store has been found to stealthily harvest text messages with the goal of creating accounts on a wide range of platforms like Facebook, Google, and WhatsApp
The Hacker News
3 years, 7 months ago
This Malicious App Abused Hacked Devices to Create Fake Accounts on Multiple Platforms
A malicious Android SMS application found on the Google Play Store has been found to stealthily harvest text messages with the goal of creating accounts on a wide range of platforms like Facebook, Google, and WhatsApp
Dark Reading
3 years, 7 months ago
The Metaverse Could Become a Top Avenue for Cyberattacks in 2023
Expect to see attackers expand their use of current consumer-targeting tactics while exploring new ways to target Internet users — with implications for businesses.
The Hacker News
3 years, 7 months ago
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 data of more than half a billion users of its Facebook service, ramping up privacy enforcement against U.S. tech firms
Bleeping Computer
3 years, 7 months ago
Malicious Android app found powering account creation service
A fake Android SMS application, with 100,000 downloads on the Google Play store, has been discovered to secretly act as an SMS relay for an account creation service for sites like Microsoft, Google, Instagram, Telegram, and Facebook [...]
Dark Reading
3 years, 7 months ago
$275M Fine for Meta After Facebook Data Scrape
Meta has been found in violation of Europe's GDPR rules requiring the social media giant to protect user data by 'design and default.'
Bleeping Computer
3 years, 7 months ago
Meta fined €265M for not protecting Facebook users' data from scrapers
Meta has been fined €265 million ($275.5 million) by the Irish data protection commission (DPC) for a massive 2021 Facebook data leak exposing the information of hundreds of million users worldwide. [...]