Source: a group that claims to have hacked car dealership software provider CDK Global has demanded tens of millions of dollars in ransom, and CDK plans to pay
- Eastern European cybercrime group demanding extortion payment — CDK down for several days as dealerships experience fallout
Internal Facebook report: Eastern European troll farms reached 140M US users/month before the 2020 election; 75% of these users didn't follow any of their Pages
foreign organizations that strategically target these groups for financial and possibly political gain. https://twitter.com/... Ella Dawson / @brosandprose : “In October 2019, all 15 of the top pages ...
Internal Facebook report: Eastern European troll farms reached 140M US users/month before the 2020 election; 75% of these users didn't follow any of their Pages
In the run-up to the 2020 election, the most highly contested in US history, Facebook's most popular pages for Christian … Tweets: @_karenhao , @profcarroll , @melissaryan , @adam_k_levin , @katestarb...
Sources: Colonial paid ~$5M ransom in cryptocurrency within hours of the attack, but the hackers' decrypting tool was so slow that it had to use its own backups
this should significantly escalate the political pressure to finally counter the ransomware ecosystem https://www.bloomberg.com/... Barbara Malmet / @b52malmet : Maybe it was a four hundred pound eigh...
Facebook takes down 315 Pages, 152 accounts, 4 Groups, and 41 Instagram accounts for “coordinated inauthentic behavior” originating in Russia
Top Takeaways Hillary Grigonis / Digital Trends : Nearly a million Facebook users followed these fake Russian accounts Chris White / The Daily Caller : Here's The Twist Facebook Says Russia Is Putting...
Hacker gang siphons more than $15M from Eastern European banks with targeted phishing, malware
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security : Tweets: @briankrebs Tweets: @briankrebs : Crime gang hacked ATMs from inside banks http://ow.ly/GhgoM < Russian gang also appears tied to Staples, Sheplers, Michaels...