They are knowingly allowing card fraud and other cybercrime groups to operate openly on there. We’re not talking about criminals that use the platform while trying to appear sneaky and flying under the radar - we’re talking about groups outright advertising their wares in the group name: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/04/deleted-facebook-cybercr...
> Some had existed on Facebook for up to nine years; approximately ten percent of them had plied their trade on the social network for more than four years.
> KrebsOnSecurity’s research was far from exhaustive: For the most part, I only looked at groups that promoted fraudulent activities in the English language. Also, I ignored groups that had fewer than 25 members. As such, there may well be hundreds or thousands of other groups who openly promote fraud as their purpose of membership but which achieve greater stealth by masking their intent with variations on or mispellings of different cyber fraud slang terms.
I have my own personal experience with this. I came across a page promoting Snapchat (and maybe other services) hacking services that in exchange for a fee claimed it would email you the credentials of the target account, with plenty of obviously compromised accounts posting comments claiming it works. Obviously very illegal in the vast majority of jurisdictions, but the double whammy there is that the service was itself a scam.
Reporting the aforementioned group and a few of the fake comments yielded that none of this activity goes against their community standards.
i love reading the comment in HN, not the articles. but this is a strange one.
> They are knowingly allowing card fraud and other cybercrime groups to operate openly on there.
i wonder if you believe yourself when you write stuff like that?
as if that company has a policy to allow fraud and cybercrime and they really believe its good for their business.
if you do... well... watch out from those black helicopters
You don't need an explicit policy to allow it (putting it in writing would be stupid). There's plenty of ways to effectively allow it without saying it, like not encouraging/deprioritizing projects that aim to crack down on this kind of behavior, effectively turning a blind eye to the bad content without ever explicitly "allowing" it so they retain plausible deniability when confronted.
They are knowingly allowing card fraud and other cybercrime groups to operate openly on there. We’re not talking about criminals that use the platform while trying to appear sneaky and flying under the radar - we’re talking about groups outright advertising their wares in the group name: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/04/deleted-facebook-cybercr...
> Some had existed on Facebook for up to nine years; approximately ten percent of them had plied their trade on the social network for more than four years.
> KrebsOnSecurity’s research was far from exhaustive: For the most part, I only looked at groups that promoted fraudulent activities in the English language. Also, I ignored groups that had fewer than 25 members. As such, there may well be hundreds or thousands of other groups who openly promote fraud as their purpose of membership but which achieve greater stealth by masking their intent with variations on or mispellings of different cyber fraud slang terms.
I have my own personal experience with this. I came across a page promoting Snapchat (and maybe other services) hacking services that in exchange for a fee claimed it would email you the credentials of the target account, with plenty of obviously compromised accounts posting comments claiming it works. Obviously very illegal in the vast majority of jurisdictions, but the double whammy there is that the service was itself a scam.
Reporting the aforementioned group and a few of the fake comments yielded that none of this activity goes against their community standards.