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Ben Nimmo

@benimmo
68 posts
2024-10-10
OUT TODAY: @OpenAI's update on disrupting deceptive uses of AI. Featuring case studies of cyber operations, covert influence ops and deceptive networks that we disrupted from around the world: https://openai.com/...
2024-10-10 View on X
CNBC

OpenAI says it has disrupted 20+ operations and deceptive networks in 2024 so far that tried to use its models, including four that had election-related content

OpenAI is increasingly becoming a platform of choice for cyber actors looking to influence democratic elections across the globe.

2024-05-31
Out today: @OpenAI's first threat report into covert influence operations using generative AI. Some familiar ops in the mix, incl. Doppelganger and Spamouflage. But no sign of meaningfully increased engagement from AI use. https://openai.com/...
2024-05-31 View on X
Washington Post

OpenAI disrupted five covert influence operations in the past three months that used its tools to try to manipulate public opinion or shape political outcomes

firm criticized the UN as well Meta went out of its way to tell the WSJ it didnt connect the firm to the Israeli government though I am not sure how the company tried (or didnt try...

2023-05-04
NEW: @Meta's Quarterly Adversarial Threat Report, featuring malware research, espionage takedowns, and disruptions of covert influence operations from: China (two networks) Iran USA and Venezuela Georgia Togo and Burkina Faso https://about.fb.com/...
2023-05-04 View on X
Wired

Meta warns malware actors are increasingly spreading their infrastructure across platforms and has blocked 1,000+ ChatGPT-themed malicious URLs since March 2023

Lily Hay Newman / Wired :

2023-03-17
We developed the kill chain to: analyse and compare online operations, find cross-society defence gaps, ID opportunities for early disruption across a range of threats online Added benefit: making sure security teams don't work in silos. https://carnegieendowment.org/ ...
2023-03-17 View on X
The Record

Q&A with two of Meta's leading security experts about its Online Operations Kill Chain, a framework for responding to threat activity like influence operations

Next year will feature some of the most geopolitically significant elections of our times.

2022-11-23
We reported on the latter two networks in September: https://twitter.com/... Since September, the Russian op has kept adding new domains. We've blocked them and updated threat indicators here so others can detect them too: https://about.fb.com/...
2022-11-23 View on X
CyberScoop

In its Q3 Adversarial Threat Report, Meta attributes a pro-US campaign to US military-run phony Facebook accounts, Pages, Groups, and Instagram accounts

People associated with the U.S. military were behind dozens of phony Facebook accounts, more than a dozen pages, a pair of groups …

The US op — linked to individuals associated w/US military — ran on Twitter, YT, Telegram, VK, OK, blogs, websites. Fake accounts targeted: 🇦🇫Afghanistan 🇩🇿Algeria 🇮🇷Iran 🇮🇶Iraq 🇰🇿Kazakhstan 🇰🇬Kyrgyzstan 🇷🇺Russia 🇸🇴Somalia 🇸🇾Syria 🇹🇯Tajikistan 🇺🇿Uzbekistan 🇾🇪Yemen
2022-11-23 View on X
CyberScoop

In its Q3 Adversarial Threat Report, Meta attributes a pro-US campaign to US military-run phony Facebook accounts, Pages, Groups, and Instagram accounts

People associated with the U.S. military were behind dozens of phony Facebook accounts, more than a dozen pages, a pair of groups …

JUST OUT: @meta's Adversarial Threat Report for Q3, 2022. Three takedowns for Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior, from USA, Russia, China. https://about.fb.com/...
2022-11-23 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Facebook's Q3 Widely Viewed Content Report: in a first, none of the top 20 posts broke platform rules; sources detail Meta's latest fight against spammy content

linked to individuals associated with the US military — operated across many internet services and focused on Afghanistan, Algeria, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Soma...

JUST OUT: @meta's Adversarial Threat Report for Q3, 2022. Three takedowns for Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior, from USA, Russia, China. https://about.fb.com/...
2022-11-23 View on X
CyberScoop

In its Q3 Adversarial Threat Report, Meta attributes a pro-US campaign to US military-run phony Facebook accounts, Pages, Groups, and Instagram accounts

People associated with the U.S. military were behind dozens of phony Facebook accounts, more than a dozen pages, a pair of groups …

2022-09-28
🚨BREAKING🚨 @Meta took down two covert influence ops: Big one from Russia🇷🇺 targeting Europe with spoofed media websites like the Guardian and Spiegel First one from China 🇨🇳 to focus on both sides of domestic US 🇺🇸 politics and Czech-China relations. https://about.fb.com/...
2022-09-28 View on X
Protocol

Meta details influence operations from Russia, impersonating news outlets to spread anti-Ukraine content in Europe, and from China, targeting the US and Czechia

complete with real reporters' bylines and photos — and promoted them using fake accounts to smear Ukraine, according to a new report by Meta https://www.protocol.com/... Donie O'Su...

@Meta China: this was the first Chinese network we've disrupted that focused on US domestic politics ahead of the midterms and Czech foreign policy toward China and Ukraine. It was small, we took it down before it built an audience, but that's a new direction for Chinese IO.
2022-09-28 View on X
Protocol

Meta details influence operations from Russia, impersonating news outlets to spread anti-Ukraine content in Europe, and from China, targeting the US and Czechia

complete with real reporters' bylines and photos — and promoted them using fake accounts to smear Ukraine, according to a new report by Meta https://www.protocol.com/... Donie O'Su...

@Meta The operations were very different, but both worked on multiple social media platforms and petitions sites. The Russian op was even on LiveJournal (cute). List of domains, petitions etc in the report. #OSINT community, happy hunting!
2022-09-28 View on X
Protocol

Meta details influence operations from Russia, impersonating news outlets to spread anti-Ukraine content in Europe, and from China, targeting the US and Czechia

complete with real reporters' bylines and photos — and promoted them using fake accounts to smear Ukraine, according to a new report by Meta https://www.protocol.com/... Donie O'Su...

2022-09-27
@Meta China: this was the first Chinese network we've disrupted that focused on US domestic politics ahead of the midterms and Czech foreign policy toward China and Ukraine. It was small, we took it down before it built an audience, but that's a new direction for Chinese IO.
2022-09-27 View on X
Protocol

Meta details influence operations from Russia, impersonating news websites to spread anti-Ukraine content in Europe, and China, targeting the US and Czechia

Russia set up a sprawling and sophisticated network of websites impersonating mainstream media outlets, which it used …

🚨BREAKING🚨 @Meta took down two covert influence ops: Big one from Russia🇷🇺 targeting Europe with spoofed media websites like the Guardian and Spiegel First one from China 🇨🇳 to focus on both sides of domestic US 🇺🇸 politics and Czech-China relations. https://about.fb.com/...
2022-09-27 View on X
Protocol

Meta details influence operations from Russia, impersonating news websites to spread anti-Ukraine content in Europe, and China, targeting the US and Czechia

Russia set up a sprawling and sophisticated network of websites impersonating mainstream media outlets, which it used …

@Meta The operations were very different, but both worked on multiple social media platforms and petitions sites. The Russian op was even on LiveJournal (cute). List of domains, petitions etc in the report. #OSINT community, happy hunting!
2022-09-27 View on X
Protocol

Meta details influence operations from Russia, impersonating news websites to spread anti-Ukraine content in Europe, and China, targeting the US and Czechia

Russia set up a sprawling and sophisticated network of websites impersonating mainstream media outlets, which it used …

2022-04-08
🚨JUST OUT🚨 Quarterly threat report from @Meta's investigative teams. Much to dig into: State & non-state actors targeting Ukraine; Cyber espionage from Iran and Azerbaijan; Influence ops in Brazil and Costa Rica; Spammy activity in the Philippines... https://about.fb.com/...
2022-04-08 View on X
Washington Post

Meta disrupts covert influence operations by Belarus- and Russia-linked actors targeting Ukrainians, like hacking Ukrainian military staff's Facebook accounts

combining computer network exploitation with influence operations, CNE & active measures, in classic terminology (to be expected historically). Meta does an exceptionally good job ...

2022-03-01
It ran a few fake personas posing as authors. They had fake profile pics (likely GAN), and unusually detailed public bios - e.g. former civil aviation engineer, hydrography expert. The op posted their articles on its websites and social media, & amplified them using more fakes.
2022-03-01 View on X
Platformer

Social networks and the internet have been a valuable force multiplier for Ukraine and the allies of democracy during the early days of Russia's invasion

How much will it matter?  Notes on the platforms in wartime  —  Over the past decade, the biggest tech companies came to feel less …

It ran a few fake personas posing as authors. They had fake profile pics (likely GAN), and unusually detailed public bios - e.g. former civil aviation engineer, hydrography expert. The op posted their articles on its websites and social media, & amplified them using more fakes.
2022-03-01 View on X
Washington Post

TikTok confirms it has shut down access to Russian sites RT and Sputnik in Europe following requests from individual governments and the European Union

Facebook and TikTok said Monday that the companies would shut down access to Kremlin-controlled media sites RT and Sputnik in Europe, setting the stage for retaliation from Russia.

2022-02-28
It consisted of approx 40 accounts, Groups and Pages on FB and IG, plus on Twitter, YouTube, VK, OK, Telegram. It mainly posted links to long-form articles on its websites, without much luck making them engaging. It got very few reactions, and under 4k followers. https://twitter.com/...
2022-02-28 View on X
NBC News

Meta and Twitter removed two anti-Ukrainian “covert influence operations” over the weekend, one tied to Russia and the other to Belarus

Facebook and Twitter removed two anti-Ukrainian “covert influence operations” over the weekend, one tied to Russia and another with connections to Belarus, the companies said.

🚨 TAKEDOWN 🚨 This weekend, we took down a relatively small influence operation that had targeted Ukraine across multiple social media platforms and websites. It was run by people in Russia and Ukraine: https://about.fb.com/...
2022-02-28 View on X
NBC News

Meta and Twitter removed two anti-Ukrainian “covert influence operations” over the weekend, one tied to Russia and the other to Belarus

Facebook and Twitter removed two anti-Ukrainian “covert influence operations” over the weekend, one tied to Russia and another with connections to Belarus, the companies said.

The content was pro-Russia, anti-Ukraine and anti-Zelenskiy. One article argued that Russia hasn't done enough to fight “Ukrainian fakes”. It was bylined by one of the fake personas. Irony. https://twitter.com/...
2022-02-28 View on X
NBC News

Meta and Twitter removed two anti-Ukrainian “covert influence operations” over the weekend, one tied to Russia and the other to Belarus

Facebook and Twitter removed two anti-Ukrainian “covert influence operations” over the weekend, one tied to Russia and another with connections to Belarus, the companies said.