Trojan targeting Facebook Ads Manager could be cyberespionage tool

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Trojan targeting Facebook Ads Manager could be cyberespionage tool
December 4, 2019
https://www.scmagazine.com/home/sec...ook-ads-manager-could-be-cyberespionage-tool/

Facebook ads are being targeted by a new trojan which could allow a malicious actor to access not only regular advertisements but the growing number of political spots being posted to the social media giant.

The trojan, called Socelars, is distributed through a fake PDF editing app named PDFreader attempts to mine data from Facebook ads was turned up by Bleeping Computer and MalwareHunterTeam. Once activated the trojan attempts to steal Facebook session cookies from Chrome and Firefox through the Cookies SQLite database and then use them to connect to different Facebook URLs, Bleeping Computer reported.

Independent security researcher Vitaly Kremez said, “Also, I think in light of the upcoming elections and intensified FB campaigns running political messages, this tool is almost like an espionage malware looking for possible political narratives (and grabbing account information),” according to BleepingComputer.
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