Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Meta has confirmed that every day criminals are using text ...

Facebook, being a platform used by billions, is flooded with all kinds of accounts. However, not all of them are genuine. Many are bots that often hijack comment sections, posting the same messages ...

Facebook said its artificial intelligence detects most of these efforts and disables the accounts before they can post on the platform. Still, it acknowledges that around five percent of the more than ...

Erin Solomon, a schoolteacher from Kissimmee, Florida, said scammers targeted an unused email account to gain access to her Facebook. (Courtesy Erin Solmon) Following WTOP’s reporting on two cases ...

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, is reporting that it removed over two million accounts linked to organized scam operations in Southeast Asia and the Middle East in 2024.