{"id":9567,"date":"2021-12-17T13:45:21","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T12:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/meta-targets-cyber-mercenaries-using-facebook-to-spy\/"},"modified":"2021-12-17T13:45:21","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T12:45:21","slug":"meta-targets-cyber-mercenaries-using-facebook-to-spy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/meta-targets-cyber-mercenaries-using-facebook-to-spy\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta Targets &#8216;Cyber Mercenaries&#8217; Using Facebook to Spy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><span><strong>Facebook parent Meta announced Thursday the shutdown of some 1,500 accounts tied to &#8220;cyber mercenary&#8221; companies accused of spying on activists, dissidents and journalists worldwide on behalf of paying clients. <\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.securityweek.com\/meta-targets-cyber-mercenaries-using-facebook-spy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?a=Rxt6ilwMsOY:eeMc8YXsHfg:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?a=Rxt6ilwMsOY:eeMc8YXsHfg:-BTjWOF_DHI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?i=Rxt6ilwMsOY:eeMc8YXsHfg:-BTjWOF_DHI\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?a=Rxt6ilwMsOY:eeMc8YXsHfg:dnMXMwOfBR0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?d=dnMXMwOfBR0\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?a=Rxt6ilwMsOY:eeMc8YXsHfg:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?i=Rxt6ilwMsOY:eeMc8YXsHfg:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?a=Rxt6ilwMsOY:eeMc8YXsHfg:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?a=Rxt6ilwMsOY:eeMc8YXsHfg:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?i=Rxt6ilwMsOY:eeMc8YXsHfg:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?a=Rxt6ilwMsOY:eeMc8YXsHfg:TzevzKxY174\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?d=TzevzKxY174\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?a=Rxt6ilwMsOY:eeMc8YXsHfg:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?i=Rxt6ilwMsOY:eeMc8YXsHfg:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook parent Meta announced Thursday the shutdown of some 1,500 accounts tied to &#8220;cyber mercenary&#8221; companies accused of spying on activists, dissidents and journalists worldwide on behalf of paying clients. read more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-industry","category-tracking-law-enforcement"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}