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Facebook eradicates 915 malicious accounts and 606 fake accounts from Instagram:  February, the social media giant –   Facebook   removed 915 malicious accounts from its main app and 606 fake accounts from   Instagram . The accounts were involved in misleading users.   The  social media platform  has also removed 86 Pages and 21 Groups last month that are involved in coordinated inauthentic behaviour on behalf of a foreign or government actor and domestic bad actors.   The company said that it has removed 446 Facebook accounts, 4 Pages, 3 Groups and 2 Instagram accounts that originated in Iran and targeted primarily Iraq, and to a lesser extent Israel, the UK, and Afghanistan.   "Our investigation found links to individuals in Tehran. We found this network after reviewing public reporting about a handful of its accounts focused on Israel. Our internal investigation uncovered the broader network," the company said in a statement.   530 In...

Biden admin to set up task force for Microsoft hack linked to China:  According to sources,   President Joe Biden`s administration   is expected to put together a task force to deal with major cyber intrusions that   Microsoft   said this week were linked to China as relations between the two -- Washington and Beijing -- continues to spiral downwards. It has been reported that there are an estimated 30,000 affected customers in the US and 250,000 globally, though those numbers are expected to increase.   A White House official said, "We are undertaking a whole of government response to assess and address the impact. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an emergency directive to agencies and we`re now working with our partners and looking closely at the next steps we need to take. This is an active threat still developing and we urge network operators to take it very seriously. Unified Coordination Group" (UCG), is a multi-agenc...