"Meta Expunges Multiple APT, Cybercrime Groups From Facebook, Instagram"

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, announced that it thwarted the activities of three Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) groups in South Asia engaged in cyber espionage and six adversarial groups from different global regions involved in "inauthentic behavior" on Facebook and other social networks. According to the company, the takedown of these and other activities on the company's platforms indicates consistent and globally dispersed exploitative behavior by threat actors who leverage online platforms to create intricate social-engineering campaigns to lure and exploit Internet users. Meta reports that in most instances, threat actors use Facebook and other social networking and media platforms, such as Twitter, Telegram, YouTube, Medium, TikTok, and Blogspot, to make numerous fake online accounts and personas. According to Meta, the attackers used fake identities, such as job recruiters, journalists, and even military personnel, to gain the trust of users and legitimate entities so they could engage in malicious threat activity. In its recently released Quarterly Adversarial Threat Report, Meta described these incidents and the steps it is taking to mitigate security threats that leverage its platforms. This article continues to discuss Meta's removal of three APTs and six potentially cybercriminal networks from its platforms.

Dark Reading reports "Meta Expunges Multiple APT, Cybercrime Groups From Facebook, Instagram"