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# Cobweb of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/cobweb-of-the-day/
- Published: 2022-10-12T17:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-10-12T06:00:38.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-16 22:48

> Cobwebs is among seven foreign companies accused in late 2021 by tech giant Meta of [setting up fake accounts to spy](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/12/17/meta-bans-cyber-mercenaries-spying-on-journalists-activists?ref=goodoil.news) on almost 50,000 people, including journalists, human rights activists, politicians and others [in more than 100 countries](https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2021-12-21/ty-article/.premium/cyber-mercenaries-how-israels-spyware-industry-is-getting-slammed/0000017f-dbef-d3a5-af7f-fbef60bb0000?ref=goodoil.news).  
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> Meta, formerly Facebook, reported it had identified “customers” of Cobwebs in at least seven countries including New Zealand.  
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> “In addition to collecting information about their targets, the accounts used by Cobwebs’ customers also engaged in social engineering to join closed communities and forums and trick people into revealing personal information,” its report claimed.  
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