Meta To Use Facial Recognition For Recovering Compromised Accounts
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has announced a new initiative to improve account security and combat fraud by utilizing facial recognition technology.
This new approach aims to streamline the process of recovering...
Threat Actors Hijacking Facebook Accounts With Password Stealing Malware
Threat actors leverage social media to deploy malware, such as the SYS01 stealer, which steals Facebook credentials and spreads through compromised accounts.
Social media's popularity makes it a prime target, and stolen credentials are valuable...
Hackers Employing FB Infrastructure to Steal Your Account Passwords
Cybercriminals in password theft are constantly developing new ways to deliver phishing emails.
They’ve learned to use a legitimate Facebook mechanism to send fake notifications threatening to block Facebook business accounts.
We explore how the...
New Cyber Attack Targeting Facebook Business Accounts
The email campaign impersonates the Facebook Ads Team to trick users into clicking a malicious link, as the email leverages social engineering tactics like sender name spoofing and urgency to appear legitimate.
Grammatical errors and...
Facebook & Instagram is Down, Massive Disruption in Meta History
In a rare and disruptive event, Facebook, Instagram, and Google experienced a widespread outage that prevented users worldwide from accessing their accounts.
The outage, which affected social media platforms and the tech giant's services,...
Meta Makes End-to-End Encryption Default on Facebook Messenger
In a historic revelation, Meta has declared a paradigm shift for its Messenger platform, unveiling the implementation of default end-to-end encryption for all personal messages and calls.
This pivotal moment is destined to reshape the...
Hackers Hijack Facebook Business Accounts to Run Malicious Ads
Cybercriminals have been exploiting Facebook business accounts by gaining unauthorized access to them and launching advertising campaigns under the guise of legitimate account owners. As a result, the victims are forced to bear the...
How to Change Location on Facebook Marketplace: A Deep Dive into Facebook’s Privacy Settings
Like physical marketplaces, where you can stroll through rows of vendors offering various goods, Facebook Marketplace is a digital bazaar. It is a Facebook-designed hub allowing users to purchase and sell items online. This...
Facebook to Pay $725 Million to Resolve Cambridge Analytica Scandal Case
There was a class-action lawsuit filed against Facebook which is owned by Meta Platforms Inc claiming the social media network had intentionally facilitated the access of user information, including the data of Cambridge Analytica,...
Facebook Banned Spyware Vendors from U.S., China, Russia, Israel, and India
Since 2017, Facebook has taken down almost 200 secret malicious operations running on its platform in 42 different languages in 68 countries, as recently confirmed by Meta.
Furthermore, the social network conglomerate has taken steps...