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Facebook says Iranian hackers used site in spying on U S mi

Facebook says Iranian hackers used site in spying on U.S. military personnel Reuters | Jul 15, 2021 03:47 PM EDT A Facebook logo is displayed on a smartphone in this illustration taken (Photo : REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/File Photo) Facebook said on Thursday it had taken down about 200 accounts run by a group of hackers in Iran as part of a cyber-spying operation that targeted mostly U.S. military personnel and people working at defense and aerospace companies. The social media giant said the group, dubbed Tortoiseshell by security experts, used fake online personas to connect with targets, build trust sometimes over the course of several months and drive them onto other sites where they were tricked into clicking malicious links that would infect their devices with spying malware.

Facebook says Iranian hackers posed as young, attractive women to spy on US military personnel

Facebook says Iranian hackers posed as defense contractors, recruiters and young, attractive women online to get personal information of US military personnel stationed overseas The hackers, dubbed Tortoiseshell by security experts, used a social engineering campaign to trick their targets into clicking malicious links  In order to do so, the hackers made sophisticated fake online personas to contact the targets  According to Forbes, the hackers posed as young, attractive women on Facebook Facebook said other fake personas included accounts claiming to work in hospitality, medicine, journalism, NGOs and airlines 

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