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How Ducktail steals Facebook accounts | Kaspersky official blog

November 22, 2023 admin accounts, Browsers, Business, extensions, Facebook, passwords, SMB, stealers, Threats, windows

Credit to Author: Alanna Titterington| Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2023 20:07:54 +0000

How attackers steal Facebook Ads and Business accounts with Ducktail malware (with infected archives and a malicious browser extension).

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Meta and TikTok consider charging users for ad-free experience

October 6, 2023 admin Facebook, instagram, meta, news, personal, privacy, TikTok, x, Youtube

Categories: News

Categories: Personal

Categories: Privacy

Tags: Meta

Tags: facebook

Tags: Instagram

Tags: X

Tags: Youtube

Tags: TikTok

Social media companies are offering or thinking about paid subscriptions in exchange for removing ads.

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Meta is using your public Facebook and Instagram posts to train its AI

October 4, 2023 admin copyright, Facebook, instagram, meta, news, personal, privacy, tweets, x, xai

Categories: News

Categories: Personal

Categories: Privacy

Tags: Meta

Tags: Facebook

Tags: Instagram

Tags: X

Tags: xAI

Tags: copyright

Tags: tweets

Social media companies are showing their hand about scraping user data to feed into their AI and large language models.

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The privacy perils of the Metaverse

September 19, 2023 admin ar, Facebook, meta, metaverse, personal, privacy, reality, Safety, virtual reality, VR, xr

Categories: Personal

Tags: metaverse

Tags: meta

Tags: Facebook

Tags: VR

Tags: AR

Tags: XR

Tags: reality

Tags: virtual reality

Tags: privacy

Tags: safety

We take a look at the privacy implications of the Metaverse.

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The end looms for Meta’s behavioural advertising in Europe

August 4, 2023 admin advertising, behavioural, EU, Facebook, Legal, litigation, meta, personal, tracking

Categories: Personal

Tags: meta

Tags: Facebook

Tags: EU

Tags: legal

Tags: litigation

Tags: behavioural

Tags: advertising

Tags: tracking

We take a look at what appears to be the beginning of the end for Meta’s behavioural advertising in Europe.

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Meta subsidiaries must pay $14m over misleading data collection disclosure

July 31, 2023 admin Australia, Australian, Business, data, disclosure, Facebook, meta, traffic, VPN

Categories: Business

Tags: VPN

Tags: meta

Tags: Facebook

Tags: data

Tags: disclosure

Tags: australia

Tags: australian

Tags: traffic

We take a look at reports that Meta subsidiaries have been ordered to pay a sizeable fine relating to disclosure issues for a now discontinued VPN.

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All things related to Threads privacy | Kaspersky official blog

July 14, 2023 admin Facebook, instagram, personal data, privacy, SURVEILLANCE, threads, tracking, Twitter

Credit to Author: Alanna Titterington| Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2023 11:51:45 +0000

What you need to know about Threads privacy, how much personal data the app collects, and what having a profile on it entails.

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Criminals target businesses with malicious extension for Meta’s Ads Manager and accidentally leak stolen accounts

July 12, 2023 admin ads manager, chrome, extension, Facebook, malware, meta, Threat Intelligence

Categories: Threat Intelligence

Tags: Meta

Tags: Facebook

Tags: malware

Tags: ads manager

Tags: chrome

Tags: extension

A group of criminals is actively targeting Facebook business users to gain access to their advertising accounts via malicious Chrome extensions. But we spotted that they made a mistake…

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