Chinese influence operations may lack critical element: influence

A Chinese influence operation has hundreds of thousands of accounts and almost zero influence, a new report claims.

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Dual North Korean hacking efforts found attacking Google Chrome vulnerability

The hacking attempts are just the latest in the multiple ongoing hacking campaigns from the North Korean government.

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Google Cloud offers good news and bad news on Log4Shell, other issues

Google Cloud is seeing 400,000 scans per day for systems vulnerable to the Log4Shell bug, the company said Tuesday. The findings — released as part of the company’s semi-regular Threat Horizons report — show that IT security professionals need to “keep paying attention to this, because the scans keep coming, and if you leave one vulnerable instance open, you’re going to be found,” Phil Venables, the chief information security officer at Google Cloud, told CyberScoop. That said, the companies interacting with Google Cloud have “been very much on top of this,” according to Venables. The warning comes as a reminder, however, to security professionals to keep doing the work of finding the devices and software vulnerable to the Log4Shell bug, which affects versions of the widely used Log4j logging software that haven’t been patched since early December. Shane Huntley, the head of Google’s Threat Analysis Group, said that the daily […]

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