[IsraelTimes] ’It is the largest malware campaign over Facebook that has ever been discovered,’ Check Point threat intelligence chief says; FB has removed fake pages and malicious links.In one of the largest malware campaigns discovered to date using the social media platform Facebook, a suspected Libyan hacker managed to access the private information of tens of thousands of victims by causing them to click on links and files posted on both fake and legitimate pages and groups on the platform, researchers at Israeli cybersecurity firm Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. said.
"It is the largest malware campaign over Facebook that has ever been discovered," said Lotem Finkelstein, who heads the threat intelligence desk at Check Point in Tel Aviv, in a phone interview. The campaign apparently aimed at both political and financial gain, he said. The victims were mainly from Libya, with some from Europe