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The North Korea-linked nation-state actor known as Kimsuky is suspected of using a previously undocumented Golang-based information stealer called Troll Stealer. The malware steals "SSH,...
Claims to have taken down two colossal networks, with 'Secondary Infektion' schooling 'Spamouflage' Russia appears to be "better" at running online trolling campaigns aimed at pushing its...
"In the two schemes, the defendants created and used fake social media accounts to harass and intimidate PRC dissidents residing abroad," states the Department's announcement of the charges. The DoJ alleges the Group ran a troll farm that "Created thousands of fake online personas on social media sites, including Twitter, to target Chinese dissidents through online harassment and threats."
Google and its YouTube subsidiary have joined other social media networks pledging to keep the 2022 US midterm elections safe and free from Russian trolls - and anyone else spewing democracy-damaging disinformation - by taking down such content. The election strategies follow Google's move to ban MAGA message-board Truth Social from its Play store until the app removes content that incites violence.
Well known for an abundance of anti-western troll accounts and propaganda, Twitter and Meta are reporting that they've taken down nearly 200 accounts that, for the past five years, have been amplifying pro-Western messages in the Middle East and Central Asia. Stanford Internet Observatory and Graphika, a social media analytics company, have published a report based on data from Meta and Twitter, in which they describe their findings as "The most extensive case of covert pro-Western on social media to be reviewed and analyzed by open-source researchers to date."
The Feds have put up a $10 million reward for information about foreign interference in US elections in general, and more specifically a Russian oligarch and close friend of President Vladimir Putin accused of funding an organization that meddled in the 2016 presidential elections. The bounty, offered through the US Department of State's Rewards for Justice program, specifically seeks intel on Russia's Internet Research Agency, businessman Yevgeniy Viktorovich Prigozhin, and any "Linked Russian entities and associates for their engagement in US election interference."
After suffering a ransomware attack by the Hive operation, the Bank of Zambia made it clear that they were not going to pay by posting a picture of male genitalia and telling the hackers to s. Last week, the Bank of Zambia, the country's central bank, disclosed that recent technical outages resulted from a cyberattack. "The Bank of Zambia wishes to inform members of the public that it experienced a partial disruption to some of its Information Technology applications on Monday 9th May 2022," disclosed the bank in a press release.
A new Dridex malware phishing campaign is using fake employee termination emails as a lure to open a malicious Excel document, which then trolls the victim with a season's greeting message. Dridex is a banking malware spread through malicious emails that was initially developed to steal online banking credentials.
Australia's government has announced it will compel social media companies to reveal the identities of users who post material considered defamatory. Just how social media companies will be made to identify users was not explained, nor has a bill been posted that would shed light on how the law would operate - but an "Exposure draft" of the law was promised "In the coming week" ahead of a consultation process.
In a blog post, security sleuths Sean Gallagher and Andrew Brandt said four per cent of all TLS-protected malware - representing about 46 per cent of all malware command-and-control communication - interacts with Discord. "We observed significant volumes of malware hosted in Discord's own CDN, as well as malware interacting with Discord APIs to send and receive data," said Gallagher and Brandt.