Security News > 2020 > December > Facebook Shutters Accounts Used in APT32 Cyberattacks

Facebook has shut down several accounts and Pages on its platform, which were used to launch phishing and malware attacks by two cybercriminal groups: APT32 in Vietnam and an unnamed threat group based in Bangladesh.

"The operation from Vietnam focused primarily on spreading malware to its targets, whereas the operation from Bangladesh focused on compromising accounts across platforms and coordinating reporting to get targeted accounts and Pages removed from Facebook," said Nathaniel Gleicher, head of security policy, and Mike Dvilyanski, cyber-threat intelligence manager at Facebook, in a Thursday post.

The threat group created Facebook Pages and accounts in order to target particular followers with phishing and malware attacks.

The groups allegedly hacked Facebook user accounts and Pages, and used them for their own operational purposes, including to amplify their content.

"Don's Team is a social media awareness and consultancy platform. We help people to get rid of various Facebook related problems. As Facebook don't have any of their affiliation places in Bangladesh, users [suffer] from a lot of problems related with Facebook accounts/pages/groups. So as a social media consultancy team we help those users when their account gets hacked, lost access to the account. Following Facebook community standards we help the victims to recover their account when it got disabled."

News URL

https://threatpost.com/facebook-accounts-apt32-cyberattacks/162186/