Security News > 2020 > November > Ransomware Group Turns to Facebook Ads

Now, one crime group has started using hacked Facebook accounts to run ads publicly pressuring their ransomware victims into paying up.

"This is ridiculous and looks like a big fat lie," reads the Facebook ad campaign from the Ragnar crime group.

The Facebook ad blitz was paid for by Hodson Event Entertainment, an account tied to Chris Hodson, a deejay based in Chicago.

Hodson said Facebook billed him $35 for the first part of the campaign, but apparently detected the ads as fraudulent sometime this morning before his account could be billed another $159 for the campaign.

It's not clear whether this was an isolated incident, or whether the fraudsters also ran ads using other hacked Facebook accounts.

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