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OODA Analyst 2020-11-12Ragnar Locker group has taken out public Facebook ads, threatening to release stolen data obtained from a ransomware attack against Italian liquor seller Campari. The attack occurred on November 3 and resulted in the theft of 2TB of sensitive data. Ragnar operators are demanding a $15 million ransom be paid in Bitcoin to avoid the release of the data. This case of taking out public ads is a new unique spin on the double extortion ransomware tactic commonly used by threat actors.The Facebook ads contribute to the extortion pressure and make it clear to Campari that the threat actor group is not messing around in terms of ransom demands. The advertisements also make the incident extremely public and give it the ability to spread via the popular social media platform. The ads were first spotted on November 9 and were seen by 7,000 users before being removed by Facebook.Read More: Ragnar Locker Ransomware Gang Takes Out Facebook Ads in Key New Tactic OODA AnalystOODA is comprised of a unique team of international experts capable of providing advanced intelligence and analysis, strategy and planning support, risk and threat management, training, decision support, crisis response, and security services to global corporations and governments.

Most of the content people see there, even in an election season, is not about politics. This includes posts from friends or from Pages, according to Alex Schultz, VP of Analytics and Chief Marketing Officer. By IANS  |  Published: 12th Nov 2020  9:33 am San Francisco: Political content makes up about 6 per cent of what people see on Facebook and even Halloween had twice the increase in posting on US Election Day (November 3) on the platform, the social networking giant has revealed. Most of the content people see there, even in an election season, is not about politics. This includes posts from friends or from Pages, according to Alex Schultz, VP of Analytics and Chief Marketing Officer. “For example, Halloween had twice the increase in posting we saw on Election Day, even though Facebook prompted people at the top of their News Feed (a number of times) to post about voting,” he said in a statement on Wednesday. Much of the public discussion around what performs best on Facebook focuses on posts from Pages with the most engagement and which also contain links to other content elsewhere. “There has been a lot of interest in Facebook’s impact on civic discourse and reasonable requests for us to share more data so it can be studied more fully. We are partnering through the Facebook Open Research and Transparency (FORT) project with a group of researchers from a number of preeminent universities,” Schultz said. Facebook hopes the first research papers will be published next year. “Following Cambridge Analytica, it is clear how careful we need to be about partnering with researchers and giving them access to data,” the company said.

As with many others in Britain, lockdown hit Rachel and her husband, Philip, hard. Almost overnight, the couple, both in their early 50s, found themselves cut off from friends, family and colleagues. Before the Covid-19 outbreak, they had both been working every day; now Philip found himself furloughed, while Rachel was put on rotation with other essential staff, working fewer shifts at odd hours. They were unable to meet up with their four adult sons and daughters. They had to attend a family funeral while remaining socially distanced.Initially, Rachel coped in the way many others did. She played more video games than normal, and felt stressed at work, but as far as possible she managed. Her husband didn’t. For him, it seemed there must be more to it than the authorities struggling to cope with a novel virus and evolving expert advice. “The regularly changing and conflicting information that was coming from the government added to the feeling in him that they were making things up or covering something up,” Rachel says now.Initially, Philip and Rachel (their names have been changed for this article) discussed his fears, but as lockdown went on, their conversations stopped. Philip was frustrated that Rachel wasn’t taking his concerns seriously: someone had to be benefiting from the situation, he insisted, and events such as Dominic Cummings’ Barnard Castle “eye test” only increased his belief that “they” knew the pandemic was fake, and the nation was being kept indoors for a more sinister purpose. Philip began to research what this sinister purpose might be. That, Rachel says, is what led him to QAnon.It’s hard to describe the movement that Philip fell into. QAnon has its roots in the “pizzagate” conspiracy, which emerged four years ago after users poring over hacked Democratic party emails on the message…

Image: Facebook Multiple data-scraping groups have abused the Facebook link preview feature to scrape data from internet sites disguised as Facebook's content crawler. The technique consisted of using Facebook developer accounts to place calls to Facebook or Facebook Messenger API servers, requesting a link preview for pages a group wanted to scrape.Facebook would fetch the data, assemble it in a link preview, and return it to the data scrappers as an API response, ready to be ingested into the scrapper's database.The technique was successful because most website operators allow Facebook servers to crawl their sites, knowing the data Facebook collects from their pages is usually used for legitimate purposes, as part of link previews on the social network, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, or Instagram.Multiple groups abused the techniqueBut in a report published last week by DataDome, a security firm that provides bot detection capabilities for online sites, the company said it discovered several "scraper operators" employing the technique to (ab)use Facebook as a proxy for their data-scraping activities.DataDome said it identified multiple groups abusing the technique on multiple sites, but the initial detection came on the network of one of its customers, a classified ads portal."Our heuristic analysis uncovered that certain parameters, unlikely to be used by humans, were overrepresented in the URLs that Facebook requested," DataDome explained. This included URLs for pages on the classified site that users wouldn't normally share on Facebook on a frequent basis, such as search results pages — a dead giveaway that someone was scraping the classified ads site for recent entries.Tests carried out by the DataDome team confirmed the technique's efficiency and discovered that data-scraping groups could abuse this feature to retrieve link previews for up to 10,000 URLs/h from one single Facebook developer account.The French security firm said it notified Facebook of the attacks earlier…

Voters were warned of foreign interference on social media before Election Day. Now that the election is over, disinformation is still widely shared on social media.

Canteen Bar & Grille closes doors, cites 'constructive eviction' in Facebook post The Canteen Bar & Grille announced on Facebook on Monday afternoon that it has ended operations due to a “constructive eviction.” Chuck and Tammy Lalanne have owned the North Platte business for the past 17 years Tim Johnson / The North Platte Telegraph The Canteen Bar & Grille has shut down its operation due to what owners called a “constructive eviction” in a Facebook post on Monday. It’s is with heavy hearts that we are announcing the closing of our home for the last 20 years at the Canteen Bar and... Posted by Canteen Bar & Grille on Monday, November 9, 2020 Tammy Lalanne, who owns the restaurant with chef Chuck Lalanne, declined to give further insight into the reason but said Saturday was the restaurant’s last day.“I really can’t get into that end of it,” Tammy Lalanne said in a telephone interview.A note on the front door of the business also stated that the Canteen was closed for good.Tammy Lalanne said the Canteen had 25 to 30 employees, who were informed in a staff meeting of the decision.Lalanne and her husband, Chuck, have owned the Canteen for nearly two decades. Chuck began his culinary career as a sous chef as a teenager and has is also known for his “Cooking with Chef Lalanne” segments that appeared on KNOP-TV over the years.“It hurts,” Tammy Lalanne said of the closure of the business at 2102 S. Jeffers St. “We’ve been here for 17 years and it’s not how we wanted it to end, but under the circumstances, we didn’t have any choice. It’s not easy and it’s not fun. It’s just hard.”The Facebook post states that the business will offer its supply of food and liquor to the public this…

Facebook and WhatsApp are one of the most used social media applications that enable users to connect with friends or people across geographical, political or economic borders. Both the social apps Facebook and WhatsApp are owned by the same company but unfortunately, both the apps are not connected. Now, if you found an interesting video on Facebook that you need to show your friends or family members who don't use Facebook then what will you do? Well! You can simply share the Facebook video on different applications like WhatsApp, through link sharing.Interestingly, there are different ways to share Facebook videos on WhatsApp. If the video is public, then you just need to click on the Share option on Facebook and forward it to WhatsApp. If the video is private, then you won't be able to view it. However, you can consider downloading the video first and later attaching it to WhatsApp.Here is a step by step guide you can follow to share a Facebook video on WhatsApp by sending your contacts a direct link.How to share a Facebook video on WhatsApp Steps you can follow to share a Facebook video on WhatsApp.Step 1: First, open Facebook app on your device (Android or iPhone).Step 2: Next, go to the Facebook video you want to share.Step 3: Underneath the video tap the Share option.Step 4: A pop-up will appear on the screen, swipe across the icon bar and tap on More option.Step 5: Now, from the given options, tap on the WhatsApp icon.Step 6: Swipe down your list of contacts until you find the person(s) with whom you want to share the video.Step 7: Now, tap on the contact(s) with whom you want to share the video on an Android.Step 8: At last, tap the green arrow button located in the bottom…

Through Facebook, a young man shared the unusual reaction his little cat, when he decided to give her some caresses. The video of this peculiar feline is already trend in several social networks. For many people, it is not uncommon to hear that gatos They tend to have a rather distant and cold demeanor, even with their owners. It seems that this was demonstrated by the minino who is the protagonist of a recent viral uploaded to Facebook. As can be seen in the images, its owner approaches it while the pet is resting and decides to caress one of its legs. The animal he did not ‘tolerate’ being touched and had a peculiar reaction. To show his ‘annoyance’, he raised the paw that was being caressed and with this he gave his owner to understand that he did not want to be ‘disturbed’. The boy decided to climb this video to his Facebook account, where he has not stopped receiving funny comments. “When the ‘michi’ considers you an inferior being and does not let you touch him,” wrote the user in the description of this video, taking with great humor the behavior of his beloved pet. Facebook, latest news: Source link by https://larepublica.pe/tendencias/2020/11/08/facebook-viral-joven-intenta-acariciar-a-su-gato-y-este-tiene-inesperada-conducta-video/ *The article has been translated based on the content of Source link by https://larepublica.pe/tendencias/2020/11/08/facebook-viral-joven-intenta-acariciar-a-su-gato-y-este-tiene-inesperada-conducta-video/. If there is any problem regarding the content, copyright, please leave a report below the article. We will try to process as quickly as possible to protect the rights of the author. Thank you very much! *We just want readers to access information more quickly and easily with other multilingual content, instead of information only available in a certain language. *We always respect the copyright of the content of the author and always include the original link of the source article.If the…

COVID-19 | A former Covid-19 patient, Hartini Azmi, 37, has set up a Facebook page under the name "Covid-19 Survivor Sabah" to eliminate the stigma in society towards those who contracted the virus but have since recovered. The Facebook page shares the experiences of Covid-19 patients who beat the disease and are back in society, but whose presence is not welcomed...

Let’s face it, Facebook is out of control these past 7 days.  The level of filtering, censoring, throttling, and removing of Conservatives and Republicans is unprecedented.  With Facebook and Twitter censoring even the President of the United States and Fox News throwing in the towel and joining the blue wave, who can you trust these days? For many, the answer is new social media startup Parler, pronounced “par-lay”. Parler was founded in 201 and has a large base of Republicans, conservatives and Trump supporters who were fed up with being banned, censored and routinely put in Facebook jail by the left-leaning tech giant. As of this summer Parler had 2.8 million users.  Today, millions of Facebook users have decided to give the platform a shot. Heck, even Shore News Network has set up a home on Parler.   One of the top conservative news pages on Facebook is now going to be one of the top conservative news pages on Parler. The company was founded by John Matze and Jared Thomas of Henderson, Nevada. Parler’s founders saw an opportunity and seized upon it.  Realizing that their social media platform was attracting top tier conservative media companies and celebrities, the company went all in to embrace the conservative movement in America. In May of 2020, when Twitter pissed off trump supporters and started flagging the President’s tweets, Parler saw a surge in signups. While many people may not give up Facebook, we sure aren’t until they force us out, Parler appears so far to be a safe haven from big-tech censorship, but time will tell as the platform continues to grow. Parler is the mainstream media’s biggest nightmare, which is why most haven’t embraced the platform.  Differing opinions and two-sided fact check is a threat to their very existence.