Cyber monitoring aimed at politicians, already existed as an industry

　The US Wall Street Journal and Reuters reported that the U.S. Meta (former Facebook), which operates SNS, has deleted about 1500 accounts involved in Cyber Spy.

メタ幹部「不正監視の商売は産業として存在」

　Seven companies handling individuals and services that monitor individuals include the meta SNS "Facebook", the photo shared application "Instagram", and the interactive application "WHATSAPP".It was said that he was collecting 50,000 personal information and conducting monitoring activities.Most of the 1500 accounts are fake, and more than 100 countries have been targeted.

　"Surveillance-for-here" (business of illegal surveillance) is not simply a company, but is a wider range of industries, "said Nasaniel Graychar, who supervises the security division in meta.Is shown. "

架空アカウントで接触、マルウエア送信

　Meta conducted a joint survey with the Citizen Lab, a research group at the University of Toronto, Canada, and published its report.According to the report, cyber spy companies use Facebook and Instagram to search for targets, set fictitious accounts and profiles, and contact them.Download files through communication such as online chat, and install malware (malicious programs) on the target device.It is said that smartphones and the like become monitored devices.

　At one point, the smartphone "iPhone" owned by Egyptian politicians was unusually hot.When Citizen Lab surveyed, two spyware was installed.One of them was developed and sold by the NSO Group in Israel.