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Investigators also said Facebook had last month disabled the accounts of two hacking groups which it linked to Syria's Air Force Intelligence.įacebook said one group, known as the Syrian Electronic Army, targeted human rights activists, journalists and others opposing the ruling regime, while the other, known as APT-C-37, targeted people linked to the Free Syrian Army and former military personnel who had joined opposition forces.įacebook's head of global threat disruption, David Agranovich, said the Syria and Afghanistan cases showed cyber espionage groups leveraging periods of uncertainty during conflicts when people might be more susceptible to manipulation.
State Department at the time it took down the operation, which it said had appeared "well-resourced and persistent." It said it shared information with the U.S. read moreįacebook said it had not previously disclosed the hacking campaign, which it said ramped up between April and August, due to safety concerns about its employees in the country and the need for more work to investigate the network. Major online platforms and email providers including Facebook, Twitter Inc (TWTR.N), Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google and Microsoft Corp's (MSFT.O) LinkedIn have said they took steps to lock down Afghan users' accounts during the Taliban's swift takeover of the country this past summer. "We don't know exactly who was compromised or what the end result of that was." "It's always difficult for us to speculate as to the end goal of the threat actor," said Facebook's head of cyber espionage investigations, Mike Dvilyanski.
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