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Russia, Iran and Saudi Arabia are the top three proliferators of state-linked Twitter misinformation campaigns, according to a report released Wednesday by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. The think tank's International Cyber Policy Centre report and corresponding website examined datasets in Twitter's Information Operations Archive to understand state willingness, capability and intent to drive disinformation campaigns.
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A Russian national was indicted in the US on Tuesday for allegedly running an online marketplace selling access to credit card, shopping, and web payment accounts belonging to tens of thousands of victims. Marketplace A functioned like any other online store, and even had bundle deals, such as an offer to buy access to two online retail accounts and get some credit card information thrown in, for the same victim, it was claimed.
As Russian ground forces closed in on key Ukrainian cities including capital Kyiv, and airstrikes hit military bases near the western city of Lviv, the expected cyber-onslaught by Russia has largely failed to become reality. Until last week, when it emerged that Western spy agencies were investigating a large-scale satellite broadband outage affecting satellite communications provider Viasat, which began on 24 February - the day Russia invaded Ukraine.
Pixalate announced the results of a Harris Poll survey examining American parents' views about about online privacy concerning their children. The survey found that 48% of parents of children under 13 say they monitor their children's activities on apps daily, while 21% say they never check to see if those apps track their children's precise GPS location.
Samsung has acknowledged its data was stolen after the Lapsus$ extortion gang deposited what appears to be 190GB of the company's stolen internal files online. Jake Moore, Slovakian infosec firm ESET's global cyber security advisor, said: "Data breaches like this often have a price tag attached but these bad actors have just gone straight to releasing the data without a ransom note, leaving the targeted victims scrambling around trying to reduce the impact where possible."
American chipmaking company NVIDIA on Tuesday confirmed that its network was breached as a result of a cyber attack, enabling the perpetrators to gain access to sensitive data, including source code purportedly associated with its Deep Learning Super Sampling technology. "We have no evidence of ransomware being deployed on the NVIDIA environment or that this is related to the Russia-Ukraine conflict," the company said in a security notice.