Sentences with phrase «abused by malicious actors»

However, the legitimate application can also be abused by malicious actors who install it on victim computers without the owners» knowledge, to gain unauthorized access to their machines.

While no one can dispute the use case of tracking criminals, one has to question whether such blockchain tech could be abused by malicious actors.

Not exact matches

On Wednesday, Facebook added fuel to the fire by disclosing that «malicious actors» had abused a feature to likely scrape the public profile information of the company's two billion users.

However, malicious actors have also abused these features to scrape public profile information by submitting phone numbers or email addresses they already have through search and account recovery.

The company says it discovered the feature was abused by «malicious actors», writing: «Given the scale and sophistication of the activity we've seen, we believe most people on Facebook could have had their public profile scraped in this way»

Malicious actors have also abused these features to scrape public profile information by submitting phone numbers or email addresses they already have through search and account recovery.

However, malicious actors have also abused these features to scrape public profile information by submitting phone numbers or email addresses they already have through search and account recovery.

Malicious actors have also abused these features to scrape public profile information by submitting phone numbers or email addresses they already have through search and account recovery.

«However, malicious actors have also abused these features to scrape public profile information by submitting phone numbers or email addresses they already have through search and account recovery,» he added.

On Wednesday, Facebook added fuel to the fire by disclosing that «malicious actors» had abused a feature to likely scrape the public profile information of the company's two billion users.

A feature allowing people to enter someone else's phone number or email address into a Facebook search to find them on the platform has been disabled, after being abused by unspecified «malicious actors» who harvested the public profiles of most of Facebook's two billion users.

While this was useful to people to find friends who may have a common name, Facebook says malicious actors abused it by collecting people's profile information through phone or email lists they had access to.

«However, malicious actors have also abused these features to scrape public profile information by submitting phone numbers or email addresses they already have through search and account recovery,» says the post.

Chief technology officer Mike Shroepfer, who wrote the update, said this was because «malicious actors» had «abused these features to scrape public profile information by submitting phone numbers or email addresses they already have through search and account recovery».

Schroepfer said that «malicious actors have also abused these features to scrape public profile information by submitting phone numbers or email addresses they already have», and that «most people on Facebook could have had their public profile scraped in this way.