Fake news, disinformation, misinformation - whatever label you want to put on it - will not just go away if one election in the U.S. goes one way or the other.
It is an issue that is spreading on all platforms in all countries.
While they have been one of the worst offenders of allowing misinformation on their site, they are far from the only offenders or the only platform where users can spread this time of misinformation, even if they are doing it by accident.
Your friends and family are likely spreading misinformation on their feeds without even knowing it or doing it with any malicious intent.
It's amplified in the U.S. because our political theater is such that when something happens, everyone else on the world stage notices it.
I can't say that folks in the U.S. are necessarily invested in the national elections in Greece.
If misinformation is allowed to spread during the Greek elections, it's going to spread to U.S. presidential elections.
Google Cloud Run is currently being abused in high-volume malware distribution campaigns, spreading several banking trojans such as Astaroth, Mekotio and Ousaban to targets across Latin America and Europe.
The volume of emails associated with these campaigns has significantly increased since September 2023 and we continue to regularly observe new email distribution campaigns.
Some of the highest volume campaigns recently observed were being used to deliver the Astaroth, Mekotio, and Ousaban banking trojans to victims largely located in Latin American countries.
The current variant of Astaroth targets more than 300 institutions across 15 Latin American countries.
Poland is launching a formal investigation into whether its former government leaders misused the Pegasus spyware.
Parliament created a coalition to see if the Law and Justice government, previously the ruling party of Poland, used the controversial spyware to track and target its political opponents.
Current ruling leaders used a promise of an investigation as one of their top campaign platforms.
MMS Fingerprint allows Pegasus users to learn a great deal about a target Blackberry, iPhone or Android device by sending a specially crafted Multimedia Messaging Service message.
The spyware startup Variston is reportedly shrinking and is preparing to completely close.
Variston is known for launching spyware that can target iPhones, Android devices and some PCs. A disgruntled employee reportedly leaked information about the company and the zero-day exploits they used to Google's Threat Analysis Group, which allowed Google to unmask the operation.
Variston, founded in 2018, previously used three zero-day vulnerabilities to target Apple devices, including a campaign in March 2023 to target iPhones in Indonesia.
Volt Typhoon has been known to target organizations in the communications, manufacturing, utility, IT and education sectors across the globe, though it's recently become more noteworthy for its targeting of critical networks in the U.S. A new report from cybersecurity firm Dragos says that it spotted Volt Typhoon conducting scanning activities against electric companies between November and December 2023.
Dragos also says that the actor has also recently infiltrated a large U.S. city's emergency services network, as well as critical infrastructure networks in Africa.
This Cyber News was published on blog.talosintelligence.com. Publication date: Thu, 22 Feb 2024 19:13:05 +0000