Facebook Disrupts Palestinian APT Activities
BankInfoSecurity Compliance Twitter Get Permission Facebook says it has disrupted the activities of two Palestinian advanced persistent threat groups that targeted victims across the Middle East as part of cyber espionage campaigns. Facebook threat intelligence analysts say they discovered campaigns linked to AridViper, an espionage group that has been active since 2015, and Preventive Security Service, which is linked to the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s intelligence services. The groups used Android and Windows malware and advanced social engineering tactics to target journalist...
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