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No, Abbey is not really a "pure patriotic girl" Spamouflage, the Beijing-linked trolls known for spreading fake news about American politics, is back with new accounts on X and TikTok that claim...
OpenAI has banned ChatGPT accounts linked to an Iranian crew suspected of spreading fake news on social media sites about the upcoming US presidential campaign. OpenAI attributed the phony posts to Storm-2035, a Tehran-backed group that Microsoft also sounded the alarm about last week as it and other Iranian groups have continued to meddle in elections - some veering toward attempts at inciting violence.
OpenAI on Friday said it banned a set of accounts linked to what it said was an Iranian covert influence operation that leveraged ChatGPT to generate content that, among other things, focused on...
Former US president Donald Trump's re-election campaign has claimed it's been the victim of a cyber attack. The claim was made after US outlet Politico reported an anonymous email account sent it a dossier of information sourced from within the campaign operation, but the entity who sent the docs declined to explain how they came by the info.
Microsoft says Iran's efforts to influence the November US presidential election have gathered pace recently and there are signs that point toward its intent to incite violence against key figures. "Over the past several months, we have seen the emergence of significant influence activity by Iranian actors," Microsoft said.
Black Hat US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency director Jen Easterly and her counterparts from the UK and EU want the world to know that, when it comes to securing elections, they've never been more prepared. "I can say with confidence that election infrastructure has never been more secure," Easterly claimed, and she had a ready explanation as to why: "The election stakeholder community has never been stronger."
Highlighting growth of phishing and digital scams targeting United States citizens, Bolster released a research that identified 24 separate nation-state threat actor groups attempting to exploit rising political tensions across the US to interfere with the 2024 presidential election. "We know the frequency of phishing attacks is increasing, as hackers utilize AI to execute more scams than ever before. In fact, phishing scams are being hosted in the US at a rate of nearly double, compared to 2023. The trend is only accelerating. In May alone, we logged a daily average of more than 45K malicious phishing sites," said Abhilash Garimella, VP of Research at Bolster.
US law enforcement and cybersecurity agencies are reminding the public that the country's voting systems will remain unaffected by distributed denial of service attacks as the next presidential election fast approaches. The feds didn't go as far as to say they expected DDoS attacks to strike the November election, but they did comment on how popular a tactic they are among politically and ideologically motivated hacktivists and cybercriminals.
CISA and the FBI said today that Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks targeting election infrastructure will, at most, hinder public access to information but will have no impact on the...
"As AI continues to advance and become more accessible, it is crucial that we prioritize fraud protection solutions powered by AI to protect the integrity of personal and institutional data-AI is the best defense against AI-enabled fraud attacks." 74% of US respondents agree that they would question the outcome of an election held online.