Sunday 28 April 2019, Poradnik bezpieczeństwa

Criminal groups on Facebook

Lost24

Facebook has over 2 billion users, which means that it’s not that difficult to find out it’s used by organized crime. Talos report has revealed the existence of 74 criminal groups, consisting of over 385,000 users of the social network.


In order to find a group, Facebook users had to only type in the search engine relevant keywords, such as spam, carding or selling cvv. What’s more, Facebook has suggested associated groups to such person.


What did these groups offer?
-    Hacked credit cards
-    Financial information
-    Credentials
-    Mail spamming services
-    Ordering of a phishing campaign or counterfeit documents


Talos experts have notified Facebook about the existence of criminal groups and it has already made a decision to delete them.