Meta clamps down on South Asian cyber espionage operations involving Facebook IT PRO


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The firm’s latest threat intelligence report discloses successful takedowns in India, Greece, South Africa and Indonesia In its adversarial threat report for the second quarter, Meta revealed it’s taken measures against two cyber espionage operations in South Asia targeting Facebook. Per the report, the operations, linked to Bitter APT and APT36, were directed toward distributing malicious malware under Facebook’s cover. “We took action against two cyber espionage operations in South Asia. One was linked to a group of hackers known in the security industry as Bitter APT, and the other — APT36 — to state-linked actors in Pakistan,” read the...