Hackers targeted Afghan officials on Facebook

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Al-Araby

Facebook revealed on Tuesday it had worked to block a hacker group that targeted the accounts of people tied to Afghanistan’s then-government and security forces as the Taliban was moving in to take power. The Pakistan-based group, known as SideCopy, used “romantic lures” from what appeared to be young women on the platform to try to trick the targets into giving the hackers access to their pages. Executives from Meta, Facebook’s parent company, did not detail what the ultimate motive appeared to be but noted the attacks were directed at “those with links to the Afghan government, military and…

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