A Year Later, Cybercrime Groups Still Rampant on Facebook
Summary: Cisco Talos researchers found 74 cybercrime groups with more than 385,000 members operating openly on Facebook, most less than a year old, using searches for terms like "spam" and "phishing"; Facebook deleted all of them only after researchers said they would publish their findings. A year earlier, KrebsOnSecurity reported 120 similar groups with about 300,000 members, and many later reemerged under similar names with the same members, while abuse reports filed through Facebook's normal channels were repeatedly answered with findings that no standards were violated.
Bottom line: Facebook removed the groups only when researchers threatened publication, not when users reported them through the abuse process, so the platform's own reporting channel is not a reliable control for a fraud operation with 385,000 members.
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