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Google said an Iranian hacking group has tried to infiltrate the personal email accounts of roughly a dozen people linked to President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump since May.
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Iranian actors have spent recent months creating fake news sites and impersonating activists, laying the groundwork to stoke division and potentially sway American voters this fall.
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By Deeba Ahmed
Multiple independent hacktivist groups are targeting India’s elections with influence campaigns, Resecurity reports. The campaigns are designed to sway voters’ opinions and undermine trust in the democratic process. Learn more about the … Continue reading Hacktivist Groups Target Indian Elections, Leak Personal Data, Says Report
State officials in Georgia have severed Coffee County’s access to statewide election systems while the breach is being addressed.
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Leicester City Council suffers a crippling ransomware attack, and a massive data breach, but is it out of the dark yet? And as election fever hits India we take a close eye at deepfakery.
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New US guidance details foreign malign influence operations to help election infrastructure stakeholders increase resilience.
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Hacking groups linked to the Chinese government are increasingly turning to deepfakes and other forms of AI-generated content when seeking to interfere in foreign elections, according to new research from Microsoft published Thursday. Beijing’s influence campaigns still rely on old standbys, such as using fake social media and news accounts, to spread state-backed propaganda, inject […]
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Election officials in Arizona and Minnesota are creating novel training exercises to combat AI-generated content this November.
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US and Russia suspect each other of intent to disrupt presidential elections set for this week in Russia and November in the US.
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FBI Director Christopher Wray says advances in generative AI make it easier for election interference and meddling easier than before.
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