An investigation finds spammers are deploying Holocaust-themed AI slop images across Facebook, in an attempt to game Meta's content monetization program
An international network of spammers are posting AI-generated images of Holocaust victims on Facebook, a BBC investigation into “AI slop” has found. Bluesky: @newjukeboxcafe , @disabilitystor1 , @jane...
Microsoft and Lumen's Black Lotus Labs find Russia-linked Turla hackers hijacked Pakistan-based hackers' servers to launch their own attacks since December 2022
The notorious Russian cyber-espionage group Turla is hacking other hackers, hijacking the Pakistani threat actor Storm-0156's infrastructure …
Guracha Belachew Bersha, a now-freed Ethiopian man, details scamming hundreds while he was enslaved for 16 months in a pig butchering scam center in Myanmar
A multibillion-dollar cyberfraud industry operating out of Southeast Asia relies on forced labor and torture X: @felizysolo , @mikesmithwriter , @silvermanjacob , @jchengwsj , @jchengwsj , and @jcheng...
Many LatAm migrant workers in the US are using crypto to send money home; crypto exchange Bitso says it processes $1B+ per year in US remittances sent to Mexico
When traditional exchanges closed during the pandemic, many workers turned to crypto to send remittances home. — • ACAPULCO, MEXICO Tweets: @gquaggiotto , @restofworld , @blackamazon , @apompliano ,...
How a Pakistan-born developer's open letter to Tim Cook helped bring the Urdu language typeface to Apple devices
a script like “the wings of flying geese”—users resort to transliteration with Latin fonts. @AlizehKohari investigates. https://restofworld.org/... Tori Elliott / @telliotter : If you need something h...
Inside US law enforcement's hunt for British ISIS hacker Junaid Hussain, who used Twitter and other tools for spreading online propaganda and recruiting
How a British hacker joined ISIS's top ranks and launched a deadly global cyber plot. — This text is excerpted from the book Dawn of the Code War … Tweets: @gregotto , @seamushughes , @gordonmacmill...