July 2021

(Reuters) – Facebook said on Thursday it had disposed of some two hundred accounts managed by a hacker organization in Iran as part of a cyberespionage operation aimed primarily at a corps of U. S. military workers and others working in defense and aerospace companies. The media giant said the organization, dubbed “Tortoiseshell” through security experts, used fake characters online to attach targets, build accept as true infrequently for several months and take them to other sites where they were led to click on malicious links that infect their devices with spy malware. “This activity had the characteristics of a well-funded and persistent operation, while relying on relatively strong operational security measures to hide who is behind it,” Facebook’s research team said in a blog post.

BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s Cyberspace Administration (CAC) said on Friday that officials from at least seven departments had sent groups to conduct a cybersecurity review of transit giant Didi Global Inc. Regulators come with the CAC, the Ministry of Public Safety and the Ministry. State Security, the Ministry of Transportation, the Ministry of Natural Resources, the State Tax Administration and the State Administration of Market Regulation, according to the statement. China is in the process of reorganizing its privacy and security of knowledge policy.