Access Now: 2023 was the worst year for internet shutdowns since monitoring began in 2016, with 283 shutdowns across 39 countries, led by India at 116
highlighting an alarming and dangerous trend for democracy + human rights. Read here: https://www.accessnow.org/... Alexia Skok / @alexiaskok : Internet shutdowns: - enable violence - protect attacker...
Pro-government news outlets and influencers in Bangladesh are promoting AI-generated disinformation created with cheap tools ahead of the January 2024 elections
Benjamin Parkin / Financial Times : X: @1br0wn , @areeqchowdhury , @tobywalsh , and @valayism X: Ian Brown / @1br0wn : “It's easy for a politician to say, ‘This is deepfake’, or 'This is #AI-generate...
Bangladesh's Computer Incident Response Team took down citizens' sensitive data exposed via a government site, claiming to have “promptly” addressed the breach
Computer Incident Response Team (BGD -GOV CIRT) serving with responsibilities … Twitter: @pry0cc : Viktor Markopoulos, a researcher who works for Bitcrack Cyber Security, found the data at the end of ...
A researcher says a Bangladesh government site is leaking data of millions of citizens, including names, phone numbers, email addresses, and national ID numbers
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch : Twitter: @lorenzofb and @lorenzofb Twitter: Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / @lorenzofb : We verified the data thanks to a sample shared by @vict0ni, who f...
Amnesty International: Meta's algorithms “proactively amplified and promoted content” on Facebook that incited violent hatred against the Rohingya in Myanmar
With roosters crowing in the background as he speaks from the crowded refugee camp in Bangladesh that's been his home since 2017 … Source: Amnesty International .
Facebook identifies individuals behind APT32 and suspends their accounts, linking one of the most active state-sponsored hacking groups to an IT firm in Vietnam
one operating in Vietnam, and the other in Bangladesh. https://about.fb.com/... Alon Gal / @underthebreach : Idk if Facebook made the right move by doxxing APT32 publicly prior to any arrests, nor wit...
Some brands are outsourcing the writing of well-worded Instagram captions to a far-flung cadre of writers in Pakistan, Bangladesh, and elsewhere via Fiverr
by @devi_lockwood
Kaspersky researchers detail a targeted espionage campaign via Play Store spyware apps, aimed at a few hundred users in Vietnam, Bangladesh, Indonesia, India
Andy Greenberg / Wired :
WannaCry ransomware attacks show strong links to Lazarus, the hacking group that was linked to Sony Pictures and Bangladesh central bank hacks
Similarities in code and infrastructure indicate close connection to group that was linked to Sony Pictures and Bangladesh Bank attacks.
Hackers stole $9M from Ecuadorian Banco del Austro in 2015 by sending Wells Fargo SWIFT messages to transfer funds, court documents show
Cybercriminals stole $9 million in 2015 from an Ecuador bank in attack similar to one against Bangladesh's central bank about a year later