Meta shuts Pak hackers targeting Indian officials via honey trapping, malware
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Meta (formerly Facebook) has cracked down on a cyber espionage operation linked to state-sponsored bad actors in Pakistan that targeted people in India, including military personnel and government officials, with various methods like honey trapping and infiltrating their devices with malware.
Apart from India, the group of hackers in Pakistan — known in the security industry as APT36 — targeted people in Afghanistan, Pakistan, the UAE and Saudi Arabia, according to Meta’s quarterly ‘Adversarial Threat Report’.
“Our investigation connected this activity to state-linked ac
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