Vikrant Shekhawat : Nov 16, 2021, 09:23 PM
Kabul | During the Taliban occupation of Afghanistan, Pakistan continued to help the terrorist organization. Now the social media website Facebook has also exposed this fact. A company official said in an interview with news agency Reuters that hackers from Pakistan used Facebook to target people in Afghanistan during the Taliban takeover of Kabul. From this it is clear that the purpose of Pakistani hackers was to suppress the voices against the Taliban.Facebook said a group known in the security industry as SideCopy shared links to websites hosting malware. It can survey people's equipment. The target of hackers in Kabul included people associated with the government, military and law enforcement. Facebook said it removed Sidecopy from its platform in August itself.The social media company, which recently changed its name to Meta, said a group of hackers created accounts in the name of women. Romantic lured. Talked imaginary to the user. It also compromised legitimate websites so that people's Facebook credentials could be manipulated."It's always difficult for us to speculate about the motives of hackers. We don't know exactly who was compromised or what the end result was," said Facebook's head of cyber espionage investigations, Mike DeWilyansky.Major online platforms and email providers, including Facebook, Twitter Inc., Alphabet Inc.'s Google and Microsoft Corp.'s LinkedIn, have said they have taken steps to shut down the accounts of Afghan users during the Taliban's rapid takeover of Afghanistan.Facebook investigators said last month that Facebook disabled the accounts of two hacking groups that it linked to intelligence from the Syrian Air Force.Facebook said a group known as the Syrian Electronic Army targeted human rights activists, journalists and others. They were opposing the ruling regime. Others targeted people belonging to the Free Syrian Army and former military personnel who had joined opposition forces.