Joe Biden Campaign Subdomain Down After Hacktivist Defacement
A Turkish hacktivist defaced a subdomain of the president-elect’s campaign website. Continue reading Joe Biden Campaign Subdomain Down After Hacktivist Defacement
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StrongPity APT Back with Kurdish-Aimed Watering Hole Attacks
The spy malware is being delivered via a complex infrastructure with multiple layers, in an effort to avoid analysis. Continue reading StrongPity APT Back with Kurdish-Aimed Watering Hole Attacks
Twitter Disrupts Wide-Ranging Political Disinformation Campaigns
This removal, of 32K accounts, is not the first time Twitter has taken action to protect its users from influence operations. Researchers weighed in on the practice with Threatpost. Continue reading Twitter Disrupts Wide-Ranging Political Disinformation Campaigns
Twitter Nukes 32,000 More State Trolls, Mostly From China
Chinese government trolls have been feeding racial unrest and lying about Hong Kong, according to Twitter.
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Android Phones in Turkey Will Lose Google Apps Amid Dispute
New Android phones in Turkey will ship without Google apps, including the Play Store, after Google failed to meet the local competition authority’s demands.
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Cooking A Turkey With 880 AA Batteries
Cooking a turkey right is serious business this time of year. With major holidays on the line, there’s no room for error – any mistake can leave guests disgruntled and starving. [Stephen Farnsworth] took a risk, though, and attempted to cook a turkey using AA batteries.
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Thousands of Twitter accounts have been amplifying pro-Turkish propaganda
A barrage of social media disinformation has accompanied Turkey’s military incursion into Kurdish-held regions of northern Syria in what is the latest example of friendly Twitter bots backing a government at a time of international scrutiny. Thousands of Twitter accounts in recent weeks have sent tweets including the hashtag #BabyKillerPKK, according to findings published Wednesday by the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab. The hashtag is a reference to the Kurdistan’s Worker’s Party (PKK), which the U.S. has designated as a terrorist organization despite the PKK’s ties to the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), a traditional U.S. ally. Turkey does not make a distinction between the two groups, and Turkish-backed forces have assaulted Kurdish positions in the days since U.S. military personnel began withdrawing from the conflict at the direction of President Donald Trump. While Turkey’s military has launched airstrikes and backed militias that have killed civilians, bot-like Twitter accounts […]
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Facebook shuts down ‘coordinated inauthentic behavior’ from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, UAE
In the latest sign that fake accounts remain a popular tool for amplifying political messages on Facebook, the social media company says it has disrupted information campaigns emanating from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. The hundreds of disabled accounts, groups and pages were involved in two unrelated operations, one originating in Egypt and the UAE, and the other in Saudi Arabia. The campaigns — which Facebook labeled as “coordinated inauthentic behavior” also included accounts on Instagram, which Facebook owns. Both campaigns used phony pages to post news in support of a political agenda, and both focused on countries in the Middle East and North Africa, Facebook said. The company linked the latter campaign, which supported Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, to the Saudi government. “We’re taking down these pages, groups and accounts based on their behavior, not the content they posted,” Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook’s head of cybersecurity policy, wrote […]
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New Android malware bypass 2FA & steal one-time passwords
By Uzair Amir
These apps were designed to pass as BtcTurk, a Turkish cryptocurrency exchange. Researcher Lukas Stefanko at the Slovakian security firm ESET has discovered Android malware in new apps that can bypass the SMS-based two-factor authenticati… Continue reading New Android malware bypass 2FA & steal one-time passwords
Amitabh Bachchan’s Twitter hacked with photo of Pakistani PM Imran Khan
By Uzair Amir
Turkish hackers left a message protesting against Ireland on a Twitter account owned by India actor. The official Twitter account of Bollywood’s legend Amitabh Bachchan has apparently been hacked by Turkish hacking group calling its… Continue reading Amitabh Bachchan’s Twitter hacked with photo of Pakistani PM Imran Khan