Pak Hackers Used Romance Lures To Trap Afghan Officials.

Pak hackers used romance lures to trap Afghan officials.

New Delhi, November 16 : .Facebook Tuesday announced that it had removed hackers from Pakistan who created fake profiles of young women to create romantic lures and build trust with targets in Afghanistan.

 Pak Hackers Used Romance Lures To Trap Afghan Officials.-TeluguStop.com

They tricked them into downloading malicious chat app or clicking on phishing link.
The group, known as SideCopy, targeted people who were connected to the previous Afghan government, military, and law enforcement agencies in Kabul.

SideCopy was a group that targeted those who had connections to the Afghan military and government as well as law enforcement agencies.

“We disabled their accounts, blocked their domains from being posted on our platform, shared information with our industry peers, security researchers and law enforcement agencies, and alerted the people who we believe were targeted by these hackers,” Facebook (now Meta) said in a statement.

Facebook, now Meta, stated in a statement that they had disabled the accounts of these individuals, prevented their domains being published on our platform and shared their information with industry peers, security researchers, law enforcement agencies and people we suspect were affected by hackers.

The Pak-based hackers operated fake app stores and also compromised legitimate websites to host malicious phishing pages to manipulate people into giving up their Facebook credentials.

Pak-based hackers created fake apps stores, and they also compromised websites that hosted legitimate phishing pages in order to trick people into giving their Facebook credentials.

SideCopy attempted to trick people into installing trojanised chat apps (containing malware that misled people about its true intent), including messengers posing as Viber and Signal, or custom-made Android apps that contained malware to compromise devices.

SideCopy tried to fool people into downloading trojanised chat applications (containing malware that misled them about its true purpose).This included messengers pretending to be Viber or Signal and custom-made Android apps with malware to compromise their devices.

Among them were apps named HappyChat, HangOn, ChatOut, TrendBanter, SmartSnap, and TeleChat — some of which were in fact functioning chat applications, said Facebook.There were also apps called HappyChat and HangOn as well as SmartSnap and TrendBanter.

Some of these were actually functioning chat applications according to Facebook.

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