Meta disrupts government-run cyber espionage network in AzerbaijanApril 8, 2022 - 14:36 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Meta said it disrupted a complex government-run network in Azerbaijan that was involved in both cyber espionage and coordinated inauthentic behavior. Armenia was targeted too. The campaigns targeted primarily targeted people from Azerbaijan, including democracy activists, opposition, journalists, and government critics abroad. "This campaign was prolific but low in sophistication, and was run by the Azeri Ministry of Internal Affairs. It combined a range of tactics — from phishing, social engineering, and hacking to coordinated inauthentic behavior," Meta said in its latest Adversarial Threat Report. "This group operated across the internet, with over 70 websites and domains that they either ran themselves or compromised. They targeted sites in Azerbaijan and, to a lesser extent, Armenia; a small number of sites had Russian or Turkish domains. Once they compromised these websites, the group harvested databases containing usernames and passwords, likely to further compromise online accounts of their targets who might have reused the same credentials across the internet. They also, at times, hosted credential phishing content on these websites." The group also used malware, hash-cracking tools and more to steal credentials. They even compromised the accounts of public figures and posed as members of Facebook’s security team as a way to steal information and credentials. In October 2020, Facebook announced that it was removing more than 8,000 Facebook and Instagram accounts and Pages linked to Azerbaijan’s ruling party for violating its policy against “coordinated inauthentic behavior” (CIB). But an April 2021 Guardian review of the operation’s most common targets found that the trolling operation had returned. Top stories Yerevan will host the 2024 edition of the World Congress On Information Technology (WCIT). Rustam Badasyan said due to the lack of such regulation, the state budget is deprived of VAT revenues. Krisp’s smart noise suppression tech silences ambient sounds and isolates your voice for calls. Gurgen Khachatryan claimed that the "illegalities have been taking place in 2020." Partner news Most popular in the section | Russia clarifying reports on Baku’s alleged arms supply to Ukraine Russia says is carefully working to verify reports about alleged arms supplies from Azerbaijan to Ukraine Russia warns Armenia against “falling into West’s trap” Zakharova maintained, however, that anything that will benefit the people of Armenia can only be welcomed. CSTO: Armenia has not participated in secretariat’s work recently Recently Armenia has not participated in the work of the secretariat of the CSTO, Imangali Tasmagambetov said. Meeting with U.S., EU not against third parties, says Armenia The meeting scheduled for April 5 is dedicated to strengthening of the Armenia-EU-US cooperation, Yerevan added. |