Researchers: Meta let 25 Facebook Pages run 4,100+ ads attacking Romania's pro-EU candidate and promoting far-right figures, with 199M+ views since August 2024
- Political ads promoted far-right figures including Georgescu — Network of Facebook pages shared similar, polarizing messaging
The FBI led an effort to dismantle the Qakbot botnet, which ransomware gangs used as an infection vector for years, on August 25 after infiltrating its network
It was live on 700k endpoints (!) which should give you an idea of the scale of cybersecurity woes at many orgs (it's still really, really bad out there). X: Nick Carr / @itsreallynick : payments.txt ...
Twitter's Community Notes have become a surprise hit, offering fact-checking through a crowd-sourced consensus and modeling a fairer, more transparent approach
The strength of the platform's Community Notes feature is that it works through consensus — I think I might have let out an audible groan … Tweets: @daveleebbg , @jakuuire , @warrenpearce , @trhloff...
Citizen Lab and Microsoft detail mercenary spyware from Tel Aviv-based QuaDream used to hack iOS 14-based iPhones of journalists, politicians, and an NGO worker
why didn't Apple warn us? Wall Street Journal : New Spyware Firm Said to Have Helped Hack iPhones Around the Globe Phil Muncaster / Infosecurity : New Zero-Click iOS Exploit Deploys Israeli Spyware Ed...
A look at adult webcam “monitors” in Colombia who train models and provide tech support; Colombia has the world's second largest camming industry behind Romania
Rest of World : Tweets: @helenliwrites , @alexgonzor , @restofworld , @cengizyar , and @fogginsophie Tweets: Helen Li / @helenliwrites : Wanted to give a huge shout-out to this absolutely stunning wr...
A look at adult webcam “monitors” in Colombia who train models and provide tech support; Colombia has the world's second largest camming industry behind Romania
In Colombia, camming monitors train models, translate chats, and provide tech support. Tweets: @restofworld , @cengizyar , @helenliwrites , @fogginsophie , and @alexgonzor Tweets: @restofworld : Among...
FBI knew for more than a year that Fancy Bear was targeting hundreds of government officials and policy makers but warned only a few of them
Ronald Deibert calls it the “notification gap.” Fortune : Data Sheet—Etsy Tries to Get More Businesslike Without Losing Its Soul Charles Oliver / Hit & Run : Brickbat: The First Line of Defense Steven...
The underground story of the Cobra computer, an illicit and handmade ZX Spectrum clone built and sold in Romania in the 1980s
Andrada Fiscutean / Ars Technica :