This was reported in the latest Meta security report. About 200 accounts from Russia were deleted
A group of cybercriminals attempted to hack into the Facebook accounts of Ukrainian military personnel and posted videos calling on the Ukrainian military to surrender, Facebook parent company Meta reported.
This campaign was carried out by a group known as UNC1151, which has been linked to the government of Belarus, according to the investigation carried out.
A February security update from Meta identified activity by this group dubbed “ghost writers.” Since then, the group has tried to compromise “dozens” of more accounts, although it had only been successful in a few cases.
These attackers especially use phishing to encourage their victims to click on links that lead to malicious sites in order to steal their passwords.
The cybercriminals were able to post videos with fake messages, which appeared to come from the affected accounts, but Meta said it had blocked such content from further sharing.
“These dangerous actors are not going to give up,” Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook’s head of security policy, told a news conference. “And they tend more and more to combine different approaches,” he added.
In addition to the aforementioned attacks, the company’s report also details a variety of other actions carried out by pro-Russian actors. Meta even alleged that a group tried to organize a protest event against the Polish government in Warsaw, although the event and the account that created it were quickly taken offline.
200 accounts were deleted in Russia
Meta took down a network of 200 accounts in Russia for making massive false claims primarily against Ukrainian and Russian individuals.
The network operated with false, duplicate and authentic accounts, whose behavior was detected by the platform’s automatic systems. The company indicates in its report that mass reporting efforts increased in mid-February, just before the invasion of Ukraine.
When it comes to fake behavior that is distributed in a coordinated way, the company took down a relatively “small” network that used fake accounts (27 Facebook and four Instagram, but also had a presence on other platforms) to target users in Ukraine. , country where it operated together with Russia.
Meta links this network with another eliminated two years ago that operated from Russia, the Ukrainian region of Donbas and Crimea.
Source: Infobae.
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