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Meta is taking to court a law enforcement intelligence company for gathering data about users of its Facebook and Instagram properties. The lawsuit, filed

Meta sues Voyager Labs for creating over 38,000 fake Facebook user accounts to scrape information from over 600,000 Facebook users.

Meta (formerly known as Facebook) has filed a federal lawsuit in California court to disrupt phishing attacks targeting Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp users.

Almost 40,000 fake login web pages impersonating Meta products were recently created.

The company is seeking $500,000 from the unnamed threat actors that ran phishing scam on its platforms

Facebook Suing Chrome Extension Makers For Spying On Users January 19, 2021 Facebook is suing the makers of four Chrome extensions, claiming the extensions are used to spy on users. Facebook, Inc. and Facebook Ireland filed a lawsuit againts two people behind the Portuguese business “Oink and Stuff.” Facebook alleges that the individuals have created four Chrome extensions that scrape information from a user’s Facebook profile, as well as from the information stored in their browser un...

Image: Kon Karampelas Facebook filed a lawsuit today in Portugal against two Portuguese nationals for developing browser extensions that scraped user data from Facebook sites. "When people installed these extensions on their browsers, they were installing concealed code designed to scrape their information from the Facebook website, but also information from the users browsers unrelated to Facebook — all without their knowledge," Jessica Rom...