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Meta Finally Breaks Its Silence on Pig Butchering
The company gave details for the first time on its approach to combating organized criminal networks behind the devastating scams.
“This is a highly adversarial space where we expect well-resourced and persistent criminal organizations to constantly evolve their tactics (both online and offline) in response to detection and enforcement to try and reconstitute across the internet,” a Meta spokesperson wrote in a statement. For example, scammers are now able to easily generate understandable content in many languages using AI translation tools for both the scripts and messages they send potential victims, as well as job advertisements luring prospective workers into scam compounds. Meta says one recent scam compound that it took action against, which was targeting Japanese and Chinese speakers, followed a tip from OpenAI threat researchers who had spotted the criminal operation using ChatGPT to translate messages that could be used in pig butchering.
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