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Fake Calendly invites spoof top brands to hijack ad manager accounts
An ongoing phishing campaign impersonates popular brands, such as Unilever, Disney, MasterCard, LVMH, and Uber, in Calendly-themed lures to steal Google Workspace and Facebook business account credentials.
- December 02, 2025
- 09:00 AM
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UK sentences “serial hacker” of 3,000 sites to 20 months in prison
A 26-year old in the UK who claimed to have hacked thousands of websites was sentenced to 20 months in prison after pleading guilty earlier this year.
- August 18, 2025
- 12:36 PM
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New Webinar: Choose Your Own Investigation — Browser Attack Edition
Modern attacks have shifted focus to the browser, yet detection tools remain largely blind to the crucial activity happening there.
Join Push Security on February 11th for an interactive "choose-your-own-adventure" webinar on ClickFix, credential phishing, and other in-browser attacks we've observed in the wild.
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Meta to resume AI training on content shared by Europeans
Meta announced today that it will soon start training its artificial intelligence models using content shared by European adult users on its Facebook and Instagram social media platforms.
- April 14, 2025
- 11:33 AM
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Facebook discloses FreeType 2 flaw exploited in attacks
Facebook is warning that a FreeType vulnerability in all versions up to 2.13 can lead to arbitrary code execution, with reports that the flaw has been exploited in attacks.
- March 12, 2025
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New details reveal how hackers hijacked 35 Google Chrome extensions
New details have emerged about a phishing campaign targeting Chrome browser extension developers that led to the compromise of at least thirty-five extensions to inject data-stealing code, including those from cybersecurity firm Cyberhaven.
- December 31, 2024
- 01:54 PM
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Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp hit by massive worldwide outage
Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp suffered a massive worldwide Wednesday afternoon, with services impacted in varying degrees based on user's region.
- December 11, 2024
- 01:52 PM
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Meta removes over 2 million accounts pushing pig butchering scams
Meta announced that it has taken down 2 million accounts across its platforms since the beginning of the year that are linked to pig butchering and other scams.
- November 24, 2024
- 11:19 AM
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Fake Bitwarden ads on Facebook push info-stealing Chrome extension
Fake Bitwarden password manager advertisements on Facebook are pushing a malicious Google Chrome extension that collects and steals sensitive user data from the browser.
- November 18, 2024
- 12:05 PM
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Ireland fines Meta €91 million for storing passwords in plaintext
The Data Protection Commission (DPC) in Ireland has fined Meta Platforms Ireland Limited (MPIL) €91 million ($100 million) for storing in plaintext passwords of hundreds of millions of users.
- September 28, 2024
- 10:16 AM
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Meta halts routing via Deutsche Telekom over €20M peering fee
Meta announced that it's ending its direct peering relationship with Deutsche Telekom following a court's ruling earlier this year that would oblige the tech firm to pay the telecom €20,000,000 to continue using its network.
- September 25, 2024
- 03:29 PM
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Fake AI editor ads on Facebook push password-stealing malware
A Facebook malvertising campaign targets users searching for AI image editing tools and steals their credentials by tricking them into installing fake apps that mimic legitimate software.
- August 02, 2024
- 02:32 PM
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Fraud ring pushes 600+ fake web shops via Facebook ads
A malicious fraud campaign dubbed "ERIAKOS" promotes more than 600 fake web shops through Facebook advertisements to steal visitors' personal and financial information.
- July 31, 2024
- 10:14 AM
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Meta nukes massive Instagram sextortion network of 63,000 accounts
Meta has removed 63,000 Instagram accounts from Nigeria that were involved in sextortion scams, including a coordinated network of 2,500 accounts linked to 20 individuals targeting primarily adult men in the United States.
- July 25, 2024
- 12:54 PM
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Facebook ads for Windows desktop themes push info-stealing malware
Cybercriminals use Facebook business pages and advertisements to promote fake Windows themes that infect unsuspecting users with the SYS01 password-stealing malware.
- July 15, 2024
- 09:00 AM
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Fake Facebook MidJourney AI page promoted malware to 1.2 million people
Hackers are using Facebook advertisements and hijacked pages to promote fake Artificial Intelligence services, such as MidJourney, OpenAI's SORA and ChatGPT-5, and DALL-E, to infect unsuspecting users with password-stealing malware.
- April 05, 2024
- 12:47 PM
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Facebook and Instagram outage logs out users, passwords not working
Facebook and Instagram users worldwide have been logged out of the sites and are having trouble logging in, receiving errors that their passwords are incorrect.
- March 05, 2024
- 11:18 AM
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Facebook ads push new Ov3r_Stealer password-stealing malware
A new password-stealing malware named Ov3r_Stealer is spreading through fake job advertisements on Facebook, aiming to steal account credentials and cryptocurrency.
- February 07, 2024
- 04:24 PM
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Watch out for "I can't believe he is gone" Facebook phishing posts
A widespread Facebook phishing campaign stating, "I can't believe he is gone. I'm gonna miss him so much," leads unsuspecting users to a website that steals your Facebook credentials.
- January 21, 2024
- 11:19 AM
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Meta rolls out default end-to-end encryption on Messenger, Facebook
Meta has announced that the immediate availability of end-to-end encryption for all chats and calls made through the Messenger app, as well as the Facebook social media platform.
- December 07, 2023
- 09:27 AM
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Meta faces EU ban on Facebook, Instagram targeted advertising
The European Data Protection Board has extended the temporary ban on targeted advertising on Facebook and Instagram, imposed by the Norwegian Data Protection Authority (DPA) in July.
- November 01, 2023
- 07:45 PM
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