Meta and Law Enforcement Target Fraud Infrastructure, Not Just Accounts

Meta's takedown of 2 million scam accounts in November 2024, coordinated with Microsoft, SpaceX, and the DOJ, marked a shift toward disrupting the technical stack enabling fraud. Rather than account removals alone, the operation targeted cloud hosting, domain infrastructure, and connectivity. This approach raises operational costs for threat actors more substantially than user-level enforcement, reflecting maturation in cross-platform enforcement capabilities.