Meta tracks millions of fake accounts
Meta has tracked a network with millions of fake accounts engaged in social media cyber espionage.
The campaign targets users in Southeast Asia.
- The network operates over 2.2 million Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter fake accounts.
- Meta believes that the operation is likely run by a group of marketing firms based in India.
- The fake accounts use profile pictures and names that appear to be real and deploy engagement patterns that mimic human behavior.
- One of the groups that were detected by Meta is a Pakistan-based advanced persistent threat group that relied on a network of 120 accounts on Facebook and Instagram and rogue apps and websites to infect military personnel in India.
- The tech giant also expunged about 110 accounts on Facebook and Instagram linked to an APT identified as Bahamut that targeted activists, government employees, and military staff in India and Pakistan with Android malware published in the Google Play Store. The apps, which posed as secure chat or VPN apps, have since been removed.
- Meta announced the fake accounts and is taking steps to prevent similar operations in the future, including working with law enforcement and improving its detection capabilities.
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