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Facebook on Tuesday revealed it filed two separate legal actions against perpetrators who abused its ad platform to run deceptive advertisements in violation of the company's Terms and Advertising Policies. "In the second case, the defendants are a group of individuals located in Vietnam who got users to self-compromise their Facebook accounts and ran millions of dollars of unauthorized ads."

Facebook this week announced filing two lawsuits - one against an organization and its agents and one against four individuals in Vietnam - over advertising-related schemes. According to Facebook, four individuals residing in Vietnam employed session/cookie theft techniques to compromise the accounts of employees at advertising and marketing agencies, leveraging them to run unauthorized ads.

" Ukrainian cops bring out the BFG and cut open some doors. A repeated request for destructive Linux code enters its 15th year.

Audi and Volkswagen customer data is being sold on a hacking forum after allegedly being stolen from an exposed Azure BLOB container. Last week, the Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. disclosed a data breach after a vendor left customer data unsecured on the Internet between August 2019 and May 2021.

Media in the San Francisco area are reporting the arrest of a notorious former resident who allegedly skipped bail on hacking charges. Anonymous is perhaps best described as "a hacking group that wasn't" - a moniker that could be, and was, claimed by almost anyone with an internet axe to grind.

The complete source code for the Paradise Ransomware has been released on a hacking forum allowing any would-be cyber criminal to develop their own customized ransomware operation. Security Joes researcher Tom Malka, who shared the source code with BleepingComputer, compiled the package and found it creates three executables - a ransomware configuration builder, the encryptor, and a decryptor.

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A North Korean threat actor active since 2012 has been behind a new espionage campaign targeting high-profile government officials associated with its southern counterpart to install an Android and Windows backdoor for collecting sensitive information. Cybersecurity firm Malwarebytes attributed the activity to a threat actor tracked as Kimsuky, with the targeted entities comprising of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador of the Embassy of Sri Lanka to the State, International Atomic Energy Agency Nuclear Security Officer, and the Deputy Consul General at Korean Consulate General in Hong Kong.

The United States Supreme Court has ruled that a police officer who received money for obtaining data from a law-enforcement database for an associate did not violate a controversial federal hacking law, marking a victory for the ethical hacking community by limiting the law's scope. In a landmark ruling in Van Buren v. United States, the court ruled that former Georgia police sergeant Nathan Van Buren did not violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 when he accessed a police database to retrieve information about a license plate in exchange for $6,000 in cash.

The Supreme Court on Thursday limited prosecutors' ability to use an anti-hacking law to charge people with computer crimes. The justices ruled prosecutors had overreached in using the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act to charge him.