Facebook Warns 50,000 Users Were Targeted By Spy-For-Hire Companies

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Meta warns of “indiscriminate” targeting of “everyday people,” as it continues its fight against the spyware industry

, and was previously owned by surveillance giant Verint, before being spun out and listed on the Nasdaq earlier this year, and currently claims a market cap of $1.3 billion. Facebook claimed Cognyte also runs a private intelligence service that includes setting up fake social media profiles, which ended up collecting data on journalists and politicians around the world. Customers were identified in Israel, Serbia, Colombia, Kenya, Morocco, Mexico, Jordan, Thailand and Indonesia.

A Black Cube spokesperson said: “Black Cube does not undertake any phishing or hacking and does not operate in the cyber world. Black Cube is a litigation support firm which uses legal humint [human intelligence] investigation methods to obtain information for litigations and arbitrations. Black Cube works with the world’s leading law firms in proving bribery, uncovering corruption, and recovering hundreds of millions in stolen assets.

When asked if Facebook was concerned about disrupting U.S. government investigations by taking down Cobwebs’ accounts, Gleicher told, “When we enforce against these violations, we have to enforce consistently based on the systemic violating behaviour we're seeing from these companies. We do that regardless of who the client is.” He said that governments can go through its law enforcement compliance team to get data on users, as often happens in the U.S. and U.K.

 

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