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APT32 Hacker Group Behind Wuhan Cyberattack Has Links to Vietnam IT Firm, Claims Facebook The infamous APT32, also known as OceanLotus, is allegedly backed by the Vietnam government and has been tracked to a local IT firm. By For every large-scale cyberattack in the last few years, cybersecurity experts and the western intelligence community have accused either Russia, China, Iran or North Korea. Those four nations have been designated enemy states of the U.S. and hence are regularly named by cybersecurity researchers. But now, Facebook says it has been able to detect the identity of a cyber...

Share APT32, the hacking group, has a history of launching operations that are aligned with the Vietnamese government’s interests. Facebook cybersecurity experts have linked a hacking group suspected of working for the Vietnamese government, pinning down an IT firm in the country as the nerve center of their operations. The hacker group, OceanLotus or APT32 (APT stands for advanced persistent threat), has reportedly distributed malware through Facebook and hacked into other individuals’ Facebook accounts. It has been linked to offensive operations emanating from an IT firm in Ho Chi Minh ...

Facebook removes two hacking groups from Bangladesh, Vietnam © Provided by WION Facebook has removed two hacking groups operating from Bangladesh and Vietnam from its platform that were distributing malware and compromising people`s accounts across the Internet. The Bangladesh-based group targeted local activists, journalists and religious minorities, including those living abroad, to compromise their accounts and have some of them disabled by Facebook for violating its Community Standards. "Our investigation linked this activity to two non-profit organisations in Bangladesh: Don`s Team (...

minute read Share this article: Facebook shut down accounts and Pages used by two separate threat groups to spread malware and conduct phishing attacks. Facebook has shut down several accounts and Pages on its platform, which were used to launch phishing and malware attacks by two cybercriminal groups: APT32 in Vietnam and an unnamed threat group based in Bangladesh. Click to register. The social-media giant said it has removed both groups’ ability to use their infrastructure to abuse its platform, distribute malware and hack other accounts. A new analysis said the two groups w...

Share on email Facebook has removed two hacking groups operating from Bangladesh and Vietnam from its platform that were distributing malware and compromising people’s accounts across the Internet. The Bangladesh-based group targeted local activists, journalists and religious minorities, including those living abroad, to compromise their accounts and have some of them disabled by Facebook for violating its Community Standards. “Our investigation linked this activity to two non-profit organisations in Bangladesh: Don’s Team (also known as Defense of Nation) and the Crime Research and Ana...