The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has fined Facebook a record $5 billion for violating the privacy of users in the context of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, which saw Cambridge Analytica harvest the personal data of millions of Facebook users without their consent. But even though the fine is

Facebook recently paid $30,000 to a security researcher who found a critical flaw that could have enabled threat actors to hack Instagram accounts by taking advantage of the app’s password recovery mechanism for mobile devices. Instagram forces users requesting a password change to enter a six-digit code within 10 minutes

Check Point researchers have uncovered a years-long, “large-scale” cyber campaign in which threat actors used Facebook in order to distribute Remote Access Trojans (RATs). The campaign was active since at least 2014 and targeted tens of thousands of users from Libya, Europe, the United States and China. The latest incarnation

As a result of the recent US ban on Huawei telecommunications products, Facebook has decided that the company “is no longer allowing preinstallation of its apps on Huawei phones.” The measure does not impact people who already own a Huawei smartphone, but is nevertheless a significant setback for the Chinese tech

Once again, Facebook took down an Iranian disinformation network of fake accounts engaging in “inauthentic behavior. In other words, they spread Iranian propaganda. The network consisted of 51 Facebook accounts, 36 Facebook pages, 7 Facebook groups and 3 Instagram accounts. The news comes just as FireEye published a new report

Campaign group Avaaz has uncovered a vast far disinformation campaign spreading fake news stories on Facebook in order to promote far right political positions to European voters ahead of the European Parliament election that will be held between 23 and 26 May. After being notified of the results of the

Facebook says it has taken down a massive Israeli influence operation targeting voters in Africa. The campaign comprised 265 Facebook and Instagram accounts, Facebook Pages, Groups and events that engaged in “coordinated inauthentic behavior,” orchestrated by Israeli lobbying firm Archimedes Group. The campaign had accumulated around 2.8 million followers on the

A new AppRiver report shows that a majority (55%) of small-to-medium-sized companies (SMBs) are willing to meet the demands of threat actors in case of a ransomware attack if this means that they regain access to their data. Larger SMBs are most likely to pay up, with about three in

Facebook expects that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) may slap a fine of $3 to $5 billion on the social media giant once it wraps up its investigation into the company’s data protection and privacy practices. Facebook has already reserved $3 billion to pay potential fines. While the FTC investigation

A recent Threatpost survey suggest that people have lost trust in Facebook as a result of the social media giant’s many privacy snafu’s over the past few years, with three out of four respondents stating that Facebook is lying about how it handles consumer data. In addition, a whopping 95%