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Malicious Browser Extensions Target Meta Advertisers

🔒 Researchers disclosed two coordinated campaigns that distribute fake browser extensions via malvertising and counterfeit sites to steal credentials, session tokens, and hijack Meta business accounts. Bitdefender documented ads pushing a fake "Meta Verified" add‑on named SocialMetrics Pro that harvests Facebook session cookies and exfiltrates them to a Telegram bot while also querying ipinfo[.]io for IP data. Cybereason described a separate campaign using counterfeit sites promoting a bogus Madgicx Plus platform and multiple rogue Chrome extensions that request broad site access, capture Google identity data, then pivot to Facebook to facilitate account takeover.

AggregateIQ: Exposed Targeting Tools 'Monarch' and Saga

🔍 AggregateIQ's public repository exposed sophisticated ad and tracking tools linked to political campaigns. The Saga suite automates Facebook ad scraping, performance reconciliation, and asset backup, while Monarch provides pixel-based tracking (Jewel, Peasant) and a microservice stack (Peon) for event ingestion and enrichment. The codebase included credentials and configs enabling fine-grained targeting, though working user datasets were not present. The exposure raises significant privacy and electoral concerns.

Exposed Facebook User Data from Third-Party Apps Found

🔒Two exposed third-party Facebook app datasets were discovered publicly accessible, including a 146 GB dump from Cultura Colectiva containing over 540 million records of comments, likes, reactions, account names and Facebook IDs. A separate At the Pool backup held profile fields and plaintext passwords for roughly 22,000 users. Both data sets resided in publicly readable Amazon S3 buckets, illustrating how misconfigured storage and long-lived third-party copies of user data create persistent leakage risk.