Reportedly, Facebook filed a lawsuit against a “Chinese Company” that allegedly put user accounts at large only to put up suspicious ads on the platform.
The running and distribution of advertisements which were about “counterfeit goods” and “dietary pills” was the only purpose of compromising the accounts in question.
The aforementioned company, per reports, goes by the name of “ILikeAD Media International Company Ltd.” It is, according to sources represented by the authors of the malware scheme, namely, "Huang Toa" and "Chen Xiao Cong".
Purportedly, the aforementioned authors apparently employed two basic ploys to mask their actual aim.
Using images of celebrities, aka “celeb bait” to lure people into clicking on them is one of them and the other happens to be a something called “Cloaking”.
Cloaking refers to the act of hiding something from the Facebook systems so that the real destination of a link an advertisement is concealed.
The ad after getting clicked on would lead the users to the genuine “landing page” whereas Facebook would be tricked into seeing a version that’s legitimate according to the policies and terms of the advertising policies.
Per Facebook, in most cases, Cloaking is fool proof as it hardly ever leaves tracks behind, making it pretty tough to realize the identity of actors. This majorly happens to be the reason why there are no specific rules about this.
Reportedly, another attack along the same lines was observed when fake PDF file editor was ..
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