Facebook disrupts Iranian hackers using platform to target US military personnel Maggie Miller
Facebook on Thursday announced that it had taken steps to disrupt a group of Iranian-based hackers that had leveraged the platform as part of a wider effort to target U.S. military personnel and the defense industry in other countries.
According to Facebook, a cyber criminal group known as Tortoiseshell took steps including creating fake accounts posing as employees of defense and aerospace companies, pushing out malware tools, and using fake websites to steal login credentials of the work and personal accounts of victims.
Military personnel and organizations in the United Kingdom and Europe were also targeted in the campaign. Facebook officials stressed Thursday that the platform was one of the elements of a much broader cross-platform cyber espionage operation.
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