26,000 scam ads slip through Meta

26,000 scam ads slip through Meta

Bitdefender says Australia has been targeted as part of a coordinated global investment scam network using thousands of fraudulent ads across Meta Platforms’s social platforms. According to new research from Bitdefender Labs, the scam operation involved 310 coordinated campaigns and more than 26,000 malicious advertisements running between 9 February and 5 March, spanning at least 25 countries and appearing in more than 15 languages. The ads wer…