Social Networks

Exposed: the threat actors who are poisoning Facebook

An investigation of the infamous “Is That You?” video scam led Cybernews researchers into exposing threat actors who are poisoning…

4 years ago

Russia-linked Fronton botnet could run disinformation campaigns

Researchers warn that the Fronton botnet was used by Russia-linked threat actors for coordinated disinformation campaigns. Fronton is a distributed…

4 years ago

How the thriving fraud industry within Facebook attacks independent media

Experts investigate how stolen Facebook accounts are used as part of a well-established fraud industry inside Facebook. No eyebrows were raised…

4 years ago

Facebook blocked Russia and Belarus threat actors’ activity against Ukraine

Facebook/Meta said Russia-linked threat actors are attempting to use the social network against Ukraine with hate speech, bullying, and fake…

4 years ago

Russian Internet watchdog Roskomnadzor is going to ban Instagram

Russian Internet watchdog Roskomnadzor is going to ban Instagram in Russia to prevent the spreading of info related to the…

4 years ago

Facebook is going to shut down Face Recognition system and data it collected

Facebook announced to shut down its Face Recognition system and is going to delete over 1 billion people's facial recognition…

4 years ago

Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram are down worldwide, it’s panic online

Users worldwide are experiencing problems while accessing Facebook services, including Instagram and WhatsApp. Users worldwide are not able to access…

4 years ago

WhatsApp fined €225M over GDPR issues

The Irish Data Protection Commission has fined WhatsApp €225 million over data sharing transparency for European Union users' data with Facebook. The…

4 years ago

Threat actor offers Clubhouse secret database containing 3.8B phone numbers

A threat actor is offering for sale on hacking forums the secret database Clubhouse containing 3.8B phone numbers. Clubhouse is…

5 years ago

Instagram implements ‘Security Checkup’ to help users recover compromised accounts

Instagram introduced a new security feature dubbed "Security Checkup" to help users to recover their accounts that have been compromised.…

5 years ago

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