Facebook claimed it has shut down roughly 200 accounts controlled by Iranian hackers as part of a cyber-spying operation that primarily targeted US military personnel and employees of defence and aerospace organizations.
The group, called ‘Tortoiseshell’ by security experts, created bogus online identities to engage with targets, establish confidence over time (often months), and lead them to other sites where they were duped into clicking malicious links that infected their devices with spying malware, according to Facebook.
Facebook’s investigations team said in a blog post, “This activity had the hallmarks of a well-resourced and persistent operation, while relying on relatively strong operational security measures to hide who’s behind it.”
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