Collaborate Disseminate
Czech news agency ČTK announced on Tuesday that a hacker had managed to break into its systems and published fake news reports of a plot to murder the president of a neighbouring country.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading Hacker posts fake news story about Ukrainians trying to kill Slovak President
The widely reported story last week that 1.5 million smart toothbrushes were hacked and used in a DDoS attack is false.
Near as I can tell, a German reporter talking to someone at Fortinet got it wrong, and then everyone else ran with it without readin… Continue reading No, Toothbrushes Were Not Used in a Massive DDoS Attack
Have you ever been swept away by an enticing headline and didn’t bother to probe the news in-depth? You might have shared an eye-catching news story or engaged with a compelling post, only to realize later that what appeared to be truth was, in f… Continue reading Why we fall for fake news and how can we change that?
Misinformation and disinformation are biggest short-term risks, while extreme weather and critical change to Earth systems are greatest long-term concern, according to the Global Risks 2024 Report from the World Economic Forum. Against a backdrop of sy… Continue reading Geopolitical tensions combined with technology will drive new security risks
Someone has hijacked the X (formerly Twitter) account of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and posted an announcement saying the agency has decided to allow the listing of Bitcoin ETFs (exchange-traded funds) on registered national secur… Continue reading SEC’s X account hacked to post fake news of Bitcoin ETF approval
Fake warnings and false accusations – it’s a “call to distraction” Continue reading DHS warning about hackers in your network? Don’t panic!
I’ve decided to share with everyone a currently active portfolio of active fake news and disinformation and misinformation web sites with the idea to assist everyone in their cyber attack attribution campaigns.Sample portfolio of currently active Fake … Continue reading Exposing a Currently Active Portfolio of Fake News and Disinformation and Misinformation Web Sites – An OSINT Analysis
New York-based Blackbird.AI has closed a $10 million Series A as it prepares to launched the next version of its disinformation intelligence platform this fall. The Series A is led by Dorilton Ventures, along with new investors including Generation Ventures, Trousdale Ventures, StartFast Ventures and Richard Clarke, former chief counter-terrorism advisor for the National Security […] Continue reading Blackbird.AI grabs $10M to help brands counter disinformation
Remember WYSIWYG? What you see is what you get. That was a simpler time in technology; you knew what the end result would be during the development stage. There were no surprises. Technology moved on, though. Now, the mantra should be, “don’t automati… Continue reading Propaganda as a Social Engineering Tool
This month, the New York state attorney general issued a report on a scheme by “U.S. Companies and Partisans [to] Hack Democracy.” This wasn’t another attempt by Republicans to make it harder for Black people and urban residents to vote. It was a concerted attack on another core element of US democracy – the ability of citizens to express their voice to their political representatives. And it was carried out by generating millions of fake comments and fake emails purporting to come from real citizens.
This attack was detected because it was relatively crude. But artificial intelligence technologies are making it possible to generate genuine-seeming comments at scale, drowning out the voices of real citizens in a tidal wave of fake ones…