Facebook suit accuses two Ukrainians of distributing adware disguised as quizzes
Facebook has accused two Ukrainian men of using quiz apps on the social media platform to inject malicious software on people’s computers, according to a lawsuit first noticed by the Daily Beast. By installing software extensions that masqueraded as Facebook quizzes, users unwittingly allowed the two men to inject advertisements into their news feeds and access their lists of friends, according to the lawsuit. That information then was exfiltrated to servers outside the country. The two men, Andrey Gorbahov and Gleb Sluchevsky, are Kiev-based entrepreneurs affiliated with a company called the Web Sun Group. The company did not respond to a request for comment from the Daily Beast Friday, and its website appeared to be down by Monday. “In total, Defendants compromised approximately 63,000 browsers used by Facebook users and caused over $75,000 in damages to Facebook,” the company claims in the lawsuit. The activity lasted from 2016 until October 2018 and primarily […]
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