{"id":3555,"date":"2021-03-25T09:43:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T09:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=3555"},"modified":"2021-03-29T11:30:47","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T15:30:47","slug":"facebook-disrupt-hacking-operation-which-uses-social-media-platform-to-spread-ios-and-android-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/facebook-disrupt-hacking-operation-which-uses-social-media-platform-to-spread-ios-and-android-malware\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Disrupt Hacking Operation Which Uses Social Media Platform To Spread iOS And Android Malware"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Researchers recently accused the Chinese government of being behind the various malware attack perpetrated by hackers. This came after Facebook disclosed that it disrupted a hacking operation that used the social media platform to spread iOS and Android malware. According to reports, the hackers exploited a host of iOS vulnerabilities to install the malware security firm, Volexity called Insomnia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While addressing the issue, head of Facebook cyberespionage investigation, Mike Dvilyanski and Nathaniel Gleicher who works as the company&#8217;s head of security policy revealed, &#8220;On our platform, this cyber-espionage campaign manifested primarily in sending links to malicious websites rather than direct sharing of the malware itself.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2021\/03\/facebook-shuts-down-hackers-who-infected-ios-and-android-devices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in ArsTechnica.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers recently accused the Chinese government of being behind the various malware attack perpetrated by hackers. This came after Facebook disclosed that it disrupted a hacking operation that used the social media platform to spread iOS and Android malware. According to reports, the hackers exploited a host of iOS vulnerabilities to install the malware security [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-networks"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3555"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3558,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3555\/revisions\/3558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}