Meta targets 'cyber mercenaries' using Facebook to spy
Meta targets 'cyber mercenaries' using Facebook to spy
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Meta targets 'cyber mercenaries' using Facebook to spy
Meta announces a flurry of takedowns of accounts affiliated with seven surveillance-for-hire firms that may have affected some 50,000 people in more than 100 countries
Meta has banned accounts linked to seven entities for conducting ‘surveillance-for-hire’ operations against some 50,000 users. One of the purged firms is the Israeli-run Black Cube, hired by disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein.
Facebook parent Meta on Thursday banned a series of "cyber mercenary" groups, and began alerting some 50,000 people likely targeted by the firms accused of spying on activists, dissidents and journalists worldwide.
Targets include journalists, dissidents, human rights activists and critics of authoritarian regimes and their families