Security News

Ireland fines Meta $264 million over 2018 Facebook data breach
2024-12-17 16:06

The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) fined Meta €251 million ($263.6M) over General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) violations arising from a 2018 personal data breach impacting 29 million...

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp hit by massive worldwide outage
2024-12-11 18:52

Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp suffered a massive worldwide Wednesday afternoon, with services impacted in varying degrees based on user's region. [...]

NodeStealer Malware Targets Facebook Ad Accounts, Harvesting Credit Card Data
2024-11-21 06:34

Threat hunters are warning about an updated version of the Python-based NodeStealer that's now equipped to extract more information from victims' Facebook Ads Manager accounts and harvest credit...

Fake Bitwarden ads on Facebook push info-stealing Chrome extension
2024-11-18 17:05

Fake Bitwarden password manager advertisements on Facebook are pushing a malicious Google Chrome extension that collects and steals sensitive user data from the browser. [...]

Malvertising Campaign Hijacks Facebook Accounts to Spread SYS01stealer Malware
2024-10-30 13:00

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered an ongoing malvertising campaign that abuses Meta's advertising platform and hijacked Facebook accounts to distribute information known as SYS01stealer....

E.U. Court Limits Meta's Use of Personal Facebook Data for Targeted Ads
2024-10-07 06:32

Europe's top court has ruled that Meta Platforms must restrict the use of personal data harvested from Facebook for serving targeted ads even when users consent to their information being used for...

Meta Fined €91 Million for Storing Millions of Facebook and Instagram Passwords in Plaintext
2024-09-30 06:12

The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined Meta €91 million ($101.56 million) as part of a probe into a security lapse in March 2019, when the company disclosed that it had mistakenly...

Meta to Train AI Models Using Public U.K. Facebook and Instagram Posts
2024-09-17 11:56

Meta has announced that it will begin training its artificial intelligence (AI) systems using public content shared by adult users across Facebook and Instagram in the U.K. in the coming months....

Fake AI editor ads on Facebook push password-stealing malware
2024-08-02 18:32

​A Facebook malvertising campaign targets users searching for AI image editing tools and steals their credentials by tricking them into installing fake apps that mimic legitimate software. [...]

Facebook Ads Lead to Fake Websites Stealing Credit Card Information
2024-08-01 06:32

Facebook users are the target of a scam e-commerce network that uses hundreds of fake websites to steal personal and financial data using brand impersonation and malvertising tricks. The counterfeit websites and ads have been found to mainly impersonate a major online e-commerce platform and a power tools manufacturer, as well as single out victims with bogus sales offers for products from various well-known brands.