Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
Facebook just launched a new kind of notification that will warn users if it suspects their account has been targeted by an attacker working on behalf of a nation-state. “While we have always taken steps to secure accounts that we believe to have been compromised, we decided to show this additional warning if we have a strong suspicion that an attack could be government-sponsored,” Alex Stamos, Facebook’s chief security officer, writes in the company’s blog post about the news. “We do this because these types of attacks tend to be more advanced and dangerous than others, and we strongly encourage affected people to take the actions necessary to secure all of their online accounts.” Facebook says that if a user sees this notification, it’s not an indication that Facebook itself has been hacked in any way. Rather, it could indicate that that person’s computer or smartphone has malware on it that bad actors are using to seek access to their accounts. Facebook says it can’t explain how it attributes attacks to nation-states versus smaller-scale hackers, because it has to “protect the integrity” of its methods and processes, but promises that it will only use that warning notification “where the evidence […]
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