Tag: disinformation
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AI red flags, ethics boards and the real threat of AGI today
Tags: ai, computer, control, data-breach, disinformation, finance, government, intelligence, risk, risk-management, threatQ: Should every large enterprise have an AI ethics board, and what should its remit include?: Paul Dongha: “When it comes to the executives and decision-makers of large corporations, I think there are a few things here.”Firstly, I believe an ethics board is absolutely mandatory. It should be comprised of senior executives drawn from a…
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AI red flags, ethics boards and the real threat of AGI today
Tags: ai, computer, control, data-breach, disinformation, finance, government, intelligence, risk, risk-management, threatQ: Should every large enterprise have an AI ethics board, and what should its remit include?: Paul Dongha: “When it comes to the executives and decision-makers of large corporations, I think there are a few things here.”Firstly, I believe an ethics board is absolutely mandatory. It should be comprised of senior executives drawn from a…
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The architecture of lies: Bot farms are running the disinformation war
Bot farms have moved into the center of information warfare, using automated accounts to manipulate public opinion, influence elections, and weaken trust in institutions. … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/10/07/bot-farms-misinformation-activity/
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The architecture of lies: Bot farms are running the disinformation war
Bot farms have moved into the center of information warfare, using automated accounts to manipulate public opinion, influence elections, and weaken trust in institutions. … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/10/07/bot-farms-misinformation-activity/
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UK minister suggests government could ditch ‘dangerous’ Elon Musk’s X
Ed Miliband takes aim at social media overlord for promoting violence and disinformation First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/09/29/uk_government_x_twiter/
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Russia steps up disinformation efforts to sway Moldova’s parliamentary vote
Russia is reportedly ramping up covert influence operations ahead of Moldova’s parliamentary election in an alleged attempt to block its path to the European Union. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/russia-steps-disinfo-moldova-election
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CopyCop Expands Its Disinformation Network With AI-Generated Content and Global Targets
The post CopyCop Expands Its Disinformation Network With AI-Generated Content and Global Targets appeared first on Daily CyberSecurity. First seen on securityonline.info Jump to article: securityonline.info/copycop-expands-its-disinformation-network-with-ai-generated-content-and-global-targets/
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Cyberthreat Law at Risk in Washington Spending Showdown
Senate Homeland Security Cancels Markup Session. Lawmakers are racing to extend a key cyber sharing law before it expires Sept. 30, but partisan gridlock and proposed restrictions on the U.S. cyber defense agency’s disinformation work threaten reauthorization – risking federal insight into active threats and chilling private cooperation. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article:…
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Russian CopyCop Network Expands: 200+ Fake News Sites Target US, Canada, and France
The Russian covert influence network known as CopyCop has significantly expanded its disinformation operations, creating over 200 new fake websites since March 2025 to target audiences in the United States, France, and Canada. Digital fingerprint over the Russian flag symbolizing Russian GRU cyber espionage and influence operations This dramatic escalation represents the largest documented expansion…
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Scattered Spider’s ‘retirement’ announcement: genuine exit or elaborate smokescreen?
Tags: ai, breach, crowdstrike, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, disinformation, google, group, hacking, infrastructure, international, law, mandiant, password, ransomware, tactics, threatLaw enforcement pressure: real but limited impact: The letter explicitly acknowledged the mounting international pressure that supposedly drove their decision.”We want to share a thought for the eight people that have been raided or arrested in relations to these campaigns, Scattered Spider and/or ShinyHunters groups since beginning on April 2024 and thereafter 2025, and especially…
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Scattered Spider’s ‘retirement’ announcement: genuine exit or elaborate smokescreen?
Tags: ai, breach, crowdstrike, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, disinformation, google, group, hacking, infrastructure, international, law, mandiant, password, ransomware, tactics, threatLaw enforcement pressure: real but limited impact: The letter explicitly acknowledged the mounting international pressure that supposedly drove their decision.”We want to share a thought for the eight people that have been raided or arrested in relations to these campaigns, Scattered Spider and/or ShinyHunters groups since beginning on April 2024 and thereafter 2025, and especially…
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Indirect Prompt Injection Attacks Against LLM Assistants
Tags: attack, automation, control, data, disinformation, email, framework, google, injection, LLM, malicious, mitigation, mobile, phishing, risk, risk-assessment, threat, toolReally good research on practical attacks against LLM agents. “Invitation Is All You Need! Promptware Attacks Against LLM-Powered Assistants in Production Are Practical and Dangerous” Abstract: The growing integration of LLMs into applications has introduced new security risks, notably known as Promptware”, maliciously engineered prompts designed to manipulate LLMs to compromise the CIA triad of…
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Cybercrime increasingly moving beyond financial gains
Tags: attack, awareness, business, ciso, computer, corporate, cyber, cyberattack, cybercrime, cybersecurity, defense, disinformation, espionage, finance, government, group, hacker, hacking, incident response, infrastructure, intelligence, iran, malicious, military, network, ransom, ransomware, risk, risk-analysis, russia, strategy, theft, threat, tool, ukraine, vulnerability, wormsrcset=”https://b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Patricia-Alonso.png?quality=50&strip=all 892w, b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Patricia-Alonso.png?resize=223%2C300&quality=50&strip=all 223w, b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Patricia-Alonso.png?resize=768%2C1033&quality=50&strip=all 768w, b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Patricia-Alonso.png?resize=761%2C1024&quality=50&strip=all 761w, b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Patricia-Alonso.png?resize=518%2C697&quality=50&strip=all 518w, b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Patricia-Alonso.png?resize=125%2C168&quality=50&strip=all 125w, b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Patricia-Alonso.png?resize=62%2C84&quality=50&strip=all 62w, b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Patricia-Alonso.png?resize=357%2C480&quality=50&strip=all 357w, b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Patricia-Alonso.png?resize=268%2C360&quality=50&strip=all 268w, b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Patricia-Alonso.png?resize=186%2C250&quality=50&strip=all 186w” width=”761″ height=”1024″ sizes=”auto, (max-width: 761px) 100vw, 761px”> Incibe. En la imagen, Patricia Alonso GarcÃa.”We are very redundant when talking about cybercrime, because we always associate it with economic motivations,” says Hervé Lambert, global consumer operations…
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PUTTY.ORG nothing to do with PuTTY and now it’s spouting pandemic piffle
Linking can be helpful but not always”¦ while disinformation can spread like a virus First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/07/17/puttyorg_website_controversy/
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AI poisoning and the CISO’s crisis of trust
Tags: access, ai, breach, ceo, ciso, compliance, control, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, disinformation, exploit, framework, healthcare, identity, infosec, injection, LLM, monitoring, network, privacy, RedTeam, resilience, risk, russia, saas, threat, tool, trainingFoundation models began parroting Kremlin-aligned propaganda after ingesting material seeded by a large-scale Russian network known as the “Pravda Network.”A high-profile AI-generated reading list published by two American news outlets included 10 hallucinated book titles mistakenly attributed to real authors.Researchers showed that imperceptible perturbations in training images could trigger misclassification. Researchers in the healthcare domain demonstrated…
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Russia-linked group spoofing European journalists to spread disinformation
A Kremlin-linked group has been publishing fake articles on spoofed news websites to spread disinformation in France, Armenia, Germany, Moldova and Norway, researchers have found. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/russia-group-spoofing-journalists-disinfo
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Second espionage-linked cyberattack hits ICC, exposing persistent threats to global justice systems
Tags: attack, crime, crimes, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, data, disinformation, espionage, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, international, Internet, office, resilience, russia, spy, threat, ukrainePattern of sophisticated cyber espionage: This marks the second major cybersecurity incident targeting the ICC in recent years. In September 2023, the court disclosed it had suffered what it later characterized as “a targeted and sophisticated attack with the objective of espionage” that was “a serious attempt to undermine the Court’s mandate.”According to reports following…
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Aeza Group sanctioned for hosting ransomware, infostealer servers
The U.S. Department of the Treasury has sanctioned Russian hosting company Aeza Group and four operators for allegedly acting as a bulletproof hosting company for ransomware gangs, infostealer operations, darknet drug markets, and Russian disinformation campaigns. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/aeza-group-sanctioned-for-hosting-ransomware-infostealer-servers/
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Threat Casting a Nation State Attack on Critical Infrastructure Scenario at CognectCon2025
Tags: attack, conference, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, data, disinformation, infrastructure, iran, malicious, middle-east, risk, threat, vulnerability, wormDuring exercises at CognectCon2025 a number of cyberattack scenarios were discussed that highlighted the risks of cyber attackers leveraging cognitive vulnerabilities to cause major impacts to nation critical infrastructures. This video is a short report-out on one such possible scenario, before we began discussing how to prevent, detect, and respond to such an event. In…
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Argentina uncovers suspected Russian spy ring behind disinformation campaigns
Argentina’s government told local media that authorities had detected an operation led by Russians that was spreading propaganda and disinformation. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/argentina-russia-spies-disinformation-project-lakhta
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Viral, aber verletzlich Die versteckten Risiken von Falschinformationen zur Cybersicherheit in sozialen Medien
Es ist keine Überraschung, dass sich 18- bis 29-Jährige für Informationen zu Cybersicherheit an soziale Medien wenden. Als Digital-Natives fühlen sich diese Altersgruppen natürlich zu Plattformen hingezogen, auf denen Informationen schnell verfügbar, leicht zugänglich und immer aktuell sind. Doch wie gut nehmen sie diese kurzen Informationen auf und geben sie weiter? Noch wichtiger ist die…
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OpenAI takes down ChatGPT accounts linked to state-backed hacking, disinformation
State-backed threat actors from a handful of countries are using ChatGPT for a range of malicious purposes ranging from malware refinement to employment scams and social media disinformation campaigns. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/openai-takes-down-chatgpt-accounts-hacking
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Colossal breach exposes 4B Chinese user records in surveillance-grade database
Tags: breach, china, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, disinformation, exploit, finance, fraud, group, identity, infrastructure, insurance, intelligence, iphone, leak, mobile, organized, phishing, phone, threataccording to cybersecurity firm Cybernews, which reported its findings based on its own research.What makes this breach particularly alarming isn’t just its size, though at four billion records, it’s believed to be the largest single-source leak of Chinese personal data ever found, it’s the breadth and depth of information that was exposed.According to the report, the researchers stumbled…
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Falschinformationen im Netz werden nur selten erkannt
Mit Hilfe von KI lassen sich heutzutage Fotos und Videos besonders leicht manipulieren. Doch vielen Anwendern fällt es schwer, gefälschte Inhalte im Netz zu erkennen.Nur ein Viertel der Internetnutzer in Deutschland traut sich zu, Falschinformationen im Netz zu erkennen. In einer repräsentativen Umfrage des Digital-Branchenverbands Bitkom sagten 26 Prozent über alle Altersgruppen hinweg, sie seien…
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Ukraine tallies up Russian cyberattacks on local media since start of war
Ukraine’s SSSCIP agency said Russia has been responsible for more than 200 incidents against media outlets since the start of the war, including wiper attacks, DDoS incidents and disinformation campaigns. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/ukraine-media-cyberattacks-russia-ssscip-report
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EU sanctions target individuals, organizations behind Russia’s disinformation and sabotage operations
Members of the Russian military intelligence unit GRU, as well as individuals involved in promoting Kremlin narratives through social media campaigns, were targeted with the sanctions. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/eu-sanctions-orgs-individuals-tied-to-russia-disinformation
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Russia-linked disinformation floods Poland, Romania as voters cast ballots
Romania and Poland have each reported increased Russian disinformation activity ahead of their presidential elections, with authorities warning the Kremlin-backed network Doppelgänger is actively attempting to influence voters. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/russia-disinformation-poland-presidential-election
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South African influencershire target Ukraine’s president in disinformation campaign, researchers say
A new analysis from the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab) identified over 40 accounts involved in the traffic manipulation campaign, which garnered 290,000 views. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/south-african-influencers-anti-zelensky-campaign
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Countries Begin NATO’s Locked Shields Cyber-Defense Exercise
The 15th annual event helps countries test and develop defenses against current and emerging cyber threats, including disinformation, quantum computing, and AI. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cybersecurity-operations/countries-nato-locked-shields-cyber-defense-exercise
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Countries Begin NATO’s Locked Shields Cyber Defense Exercise
The NATO-run live cyber exercise event helps countries test and develop defenses against current and emerging cyber threats including disinformation, quantum, and AI. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cybersecurity-operations/countries-nato-locked-shields-cyber-defense-exercise