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Criminals target businesses with malicious extension for Meta’s Ads Manager and accidentally leak stolen accounts

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Categories: Threat Intelligence

Tags: Meta

Tags: Facebook

Tags: malware

Tags: ads manager

Tags: chrome

Tags: extension

A group of criminals is actively targeting Facebook business users to gain access to their advertising accounts via malicious Chrome extensions. But we spotted that they made a mistake…

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Phishing Domains Tanked After Meta Sued Freenom

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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 26 May 2023 16:37:15 +0000

The number of phishing websites tied to domain name registrar Freenom dropped precipitously in the months surrounding a recent lawsuit from social networking giant Meta, which alleged the free domain name provider has a long history of ignoring abuse complaints about phishing websites while monetizing traffic to those abusive domains.

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MalwareBytes Security 

US Facebook users can now claim Cambridge Analytica settlement cash

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Categories: News

Tags: Facebook

Tags: class action lawsuit settlement

Tags: Cambridge Analytica

Tags: Lauren Price

Tags: Meta

In December, Facebook decided to pay $725 million to settle a class action lawsuit. Facebook users in the US can now claim their slice of the pie.

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Independent Krebs 

Sued by Meta, Freenom Halts Domain Registrations

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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2023 23:19:26 +0000

The domain name registrar Freenom, whose free domain names have long been a draw for spammers and phishers, has stopped allowing new domain name registrations. The move comes just days after the Dutch registrar was sued by Meta, which alleges the company ignores abuse complaints about phishing websites while monetizing traffic to those abusive domains.

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MalwareBytes Security 

“Untraceable” surveillance firm sued for scraping Facebook and Instagram data

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Categories: News

Tags: Voyager Labs

Tags: Facebook

Tags: Instagram

Tags: Meta

Tags: surveillance tool

Tags: data scraping

Voyager Labs, a surveillance firm, allegedly created thousands of Facebook and Instagram accounts so it could use its scraping tool to steal data.

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MalwareBytes Security 

A week in security (January 9—15)

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Categories: News

Tags: AWIS

Tags: weekly blog roundup

Tags: week in security

Tags: Slack

Tags: GitHub

Tags: Magecart

Tags: Microsoft

Tags: Pokemon NFT

Tags: Facebook

Tags: Instagram

Tags: Snapchat

Tags: TikTok

Tags: YouTube

Tags: Google

Tags: Meta

Tags: identity theft

Tags: Maternal & Family Health Services

Tags: 2023 predictions

Tags: Royal Mail

Tags: K-12 security

Tags: K-12

Tags: WhatsApp

Tags: NSO Group

Tags: Department of Interior

Tags: weak passwords

Tags: Vice Society

Tags: ransomware. Vice Society ransomware

The most interesting security related news from the week of January 9—15.

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MalwareBytes Security 

WhatsApp lawsuit against NSO Group greenlit by Supreme Court

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Categories: News

Tags: Pegasus

Tags: spyware

Tags: Pegasus spyware

Tags: NSO Group

Tags: NSO

Tags: Apple

Tags: WhatsApp

Tags: Meta

Tags: Foreign Sovereign Immunity Act

The US Supreme Court essentially gave Meta’s WhatsApp the go ahead to pursue their case against Pegasus’s NSO Group.

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MalwareBytes Security 

US school district sues Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok over harm to kids

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Categories: News

Tags: Facebook

Tags: Instagram

Tags: Snapchat

Tags: TikTok

Tags: YouTube

Tags: Section 230

Tags: Seattle Public School

Tags: SPS

Tags: Meta

Tags: Alphabet

Tags: Snap

Tags: ByteDance

A whole school district in Seattle is suing social media giants for causing harm to kids and youths.

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