A new malware campaign being rapidly spread on Facebook is infecting users’ systems to perform credential theft, cryptomining, and click fraud.

Facebook hopes to improve data privacy with a new feature letting users flush their history so that it is cleared from their account.

The apps are deemed malicious by doing things such as capturing pictures and audio when the app is closed, or making an unusually large amount of network calls.

Twitter is the latest company to face backlash for how it handles data privacy after disclosing that it sold data access to a Cambridge Analytica-linked researcher.

Private intelligence gathering firm LocalBlox leaked data on 48 million users that was scraped from Facebook, LinkedIn, Zillow and other sites.

Threatpost’s Tom Spring and Lindsey O’Donnell talk about the top security trends that they are watching out for at the 2018 RSA Conference this week in San Francisco.

Researchers said three apps used to surveil Middle East targets were booted from the Google Play marketplace.

Political actors and privacy activists are calling for more regulations on data privacy after Facebook’s data security scandal.

Privacy advocates are up in arms after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said most of the two billion users of the social network may have had their data scraped by malicious actors using a reverse search tool.

Facebook on Wednesday listed a number of new data access restrictions it is implementing as the social media company looks to prioritize privacy for end users.