Collaborate Disseminate
Influence operations are not limited to Russia, as evidenced by the Chinese efforts to cast the Hong Kong protests as tantamount to the equivalent of a terrorist-backed activity. On Aug. 19, Twitter and Facebook both took to their blogs and revealed h… Continue reading Chinese Accounts Punted Off Twitter, Facebook for Dissing Hong Kong
Twitter was posting advertisements on behalf of Chinese state media that portrayed the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong as “increasingly violent,” according to the social media bookmarking site Pinboard. Ads originating with Xinhua News Agency, the Chinese government’s official media outlet, falsely reported that “All walks of life in Hong Kong called for a brake to be put on the blatant violence and for order to be restored,” according to Pinboard, a platform where ads and social media activity are catalogued and analyzed. Chinese officials are trying to disrupt international media coverage showing that the protests, known as the Umbrella Movement, are mostly peaceful. There have been eruptions of violence, such as when police fired bean bags at demonstrators, injuring one woman’s eye, and when authorities dispersed protesters by beating them with clubs. An estimated 1.7 million people marched Aug. 18 in a peaceful protest calling for reforms such as […]
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A message was sent to Washington via China Daily July 25, when Beijing warned about bringing Taiwan and Hong Kong into the greater U.S.-China trade discussions. Then the fun started. The social network Twitter saw numerous allegations levied against i… Continue reading Hong Kong Violence Instigated by Jason Bourne
A sophisticated and growing malvertising attacker is partnering with legitimate ad tech platforms to drop malware at scale. Continue reading Massive Malvertising Campaign Reaches 100M Ads, Manipulates Supply Chain
We head to Hong Kong to look at how technology has helped anti-government protesters (and how China has tried to disrupt it), Samsung is skittish over whether to tell TV owners to virus-scan their devices, and you won’t believe whose website is n… Continue reading Smashing Security #133: Cookie cock-ups, Hong Kong protests, and smart TV virus scans
Telegram, the encrypted messaging app, has come under sustained denial-of-service attack. The DDoS was traced to IP addresses in China.
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An attack which targeted users of the Telegram app on Wednesday might be linked to protests in Hong Kong that turned violent.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
Continue reading DDoS attack that knocked Telegram secure messaging service offline linked to Hong Kong protests
Telegram, one of the most popular encrypted messaging app, briefly went offline yesterday for hundreds of thousands of users worldwide after a powerful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack hit its servers.
Telegram founder Pavel Durov later rev… Continue reading Telegram Suffers ‘Powerful DDoS Attack’ From China During Hong Kong Protests
Qupital, a fintech startup that bills itself as Hong Kong’s largest trade financing platform for SMEs, has closed a $15 million Series A led by CreditEase FinTech Investment Fund (CEFIF), with participation from returning investors Alibaba Hong Kong Entrepreneurs Fund and MindWorks Ventures, both participants in its seed round. To date, Qupital has raised $17 […] Continue reading Hong Kong-based fintech startup Qupital raises $15M Series A to expand in mainland China
Robert Tibbo discusses being pushed to leave Hong Kong under pressure and efforts made to the Canadian government to grant refugee status to the “Snowden refugees.” Continue reading Snowden’s Attorney Urges Canada to Take in Whistleblower Helpers (Part Two)