The social network has barred Vietnamese APT32 (or OceanLotus) and a Bangladeshi group of hackers from using its platforms for their malicious purposes.
Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook’s Head of Security Policy, and the company’s Cyber Threat Intelligence Manager Mike Dvilyanski announced on Thursday that they have acted against two different groups of hackers.
One group is based in Bangladesh and the other in Vietnam, but both are unconnected groups that targeted people on Facebook and elsewhere across the web using diverse tactics.
The social network revealed that the Facebook pages and accounts of these groups had been removed and the information about these groups will be shared with industry partners.
According to the Newsroom post from Facebook, the Bangladeshi group of hackers targeted journalists, local activists, and religious minorities, some of which were based overseas. The group compromised its targets’ accounts so that Facebook disables their pages for violating its community standards.
Facebook has put an end to these groups’ ability to abuse its platform, hack others’ accounts, distribute malware, or perform similar malicious tasks using their infrastructure. Facebook was able to link the malicious activities of the unnamed Bangladeshi group to two non-profit organizations, namely, Don’s Team (aka Defense of Nation) and the Crime Research and Analysis Foundation (CRAF).
Both these organizations worked in collaboration and reported about people’s “fictitious violations” of its community standards. This included “alleged impersonation, intellectual property infringements, nudity, and terrorism.”
Moreover, the groups hacked pages and accounts and used some of the compromised accounts for amplifying their content or other operational purposes ..
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