Belarusian hacker gangs are targeting Facebook accounts belonging to Ukrainian soldiers. The goal was to get the Ukrainian military to surrender to Russia.
So the hacker gang posted a video of a hacked account, a video calling to surrender to Russia. This is shared by Meta in its latest security report.
The hack was previously dubbed the 'Ghostwriter' by security researchers, and is now known to have been carried out by a hacker gang called UNC1151, which Mandiant says has links to the Belarusian government.
In the Meta security report last February, they were aware of the actions of Ghostwriter. But since it was first reported, UNC1151 has tried to hack dozens of other accounts, although only a few have succeeded.
A successful hack, according to Meta, is when Ghostwriter manages to post a video of a successfully hacked account. However, Meta claims to be able to block these videos from spreading wider.
The spread of the video containing the call to surrender had previously been a tactic of hackers who attacked television networks in Ukraine, and infiltrated fake news regarding the surrender of Ukraine.
While statements like these could easily be dismissed by the government, experts say the main aim of the tactic is to undermine Ukrainians' trust in the media.
According to Meta, there are many other hacker actions carried out on Meta's network. Including the action of a group linked to the Belarusian KGB, which tried to hold a protest against the Polish government in Warsaw. However, the event page and the account that created it were claimed to have been deleted in a short time by Meta.