Sentences with phrase «by malicious actors who»

heimdalsecurity.com - Critical Microsoft vulnerabilities are exploited by malicious actors who use them to target legacy systems.

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.

It also revealed that most of Facebook's users probably had their public profile information scraped by malicious actors who used a tool that the social network has now removed.

It also revealed that most of Facebook's users probably had their public profile information scraped by malicious actors who used a tool that the social network has now removed.

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Facebook also said it will no longer allow people to search for a person by entering their email and phone number, a feature that has facilitated «malicious actors,» who have used it to scrape public profile information by submitting phone numbers or email addresses.

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.

Facebook delivered some worrisome news to its 2 billion users on Wednesday: Most people who use the social network might have had their public profile «scraped» by «malicious actors.»

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».

As less mining is controlled by the Chinese miners, there are less malicious actors who may try to control the network.