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The Owner of SecurityCouncilMemberElectionGovernor Can Replace Cohorts And Bypass The Election Process
Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact In SecurityCouncilManager contract: the cohorts members are replaced by election via replaceCohort function; the process goes as follows: 1. an election proposal is made by anyone after 6-months of the last election via...
Vote tokens of voters are not returned.
Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact In the docs and twitter spaces, it was mentioned that the voting tokens will be given back to the voters after the Election has ended. But no logic is implemented anywhere in the repo. This can cause voters to lose their valuable voting tokens which can...
Possible DoS of Election Process
Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact Contract SecurityCouncilNomineeElectionGovernor allows contenders to participate in the election process as nominee over function addContender. The necessary condition for this process is that proposal was created before and has status...
SecurityCouncilMemberSyncAction.perform is not exclusively can be scheduled from SecurityCouncilManager's operations
Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact SecurityCouncilMemberSyncAction.perform is a crucial function that will be triggered by upgrade executor via delegate call after the whole election process or after current members do some update add/remove/replace/rotate to update security council...
Political Milestones for AI
ChatGPT was released just nine months ago, and we are still learning how it will affect our daily lives, our careers, and even our systems of self-governance. But when it comes to how AI may threaten our democracy, much of the public conversation lacks imagination. People talk about the danger of...
Buying Campaign Contributions as a Hack
The first Republican primary debate has a popularity threshold to determine who gets to appear: 40,000 individual contributors. Now there are a lot of conventional ways a candidate can get that many contributors. Doug Burgum came up with a novel idea: buy them: A long-shot contender at the bottom...
US dangles $10 million reward for information about Cl0p ransomware gang
The US Department of States national security rewards program, Rewards for Justice RFJ, is offering a reward of up to $10 million for information linking the Cl0p ransomware gang, or any other malicious cyber actors targeting US critical infrastructure, to a foreign government. Advisory from...
CVE-2022-48506
A flawed pseudorandom number generator in Dominion Voting Systems ImageCast Precinct ICP and ICP2 and ImageCast Evolution ICE scanners allows anyone to determine the order in which ballots were cast from public ballot-level data, allowing deanonymization of voted ballots, in several types of...
Now’s not the time to take our foot off the gas when it comes to fighting disinformation online
Welcome to this weeks edition of the Threat Source newsletter. In the wake of the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections, it seemed like big tech companies were taking the fight against disinformation seriously. Social media outlets set up new fact-checking procedures and got more aggressive about...
The Tragic Fallout From a School District’s Ransomware Breach
Plus: Cyber Command’s disruption of Iranian election hacking, an exposé on child sex trafficking on Meta’s platforms, and more...
Brace Yourself for the 2024 Deepfake Election
No matter what happens with generative AI, its disruptive forces are already beginning to play a role in the fast-approaching US presidential race...
Hackers Ran Amok Inside GoDaddy for Nearly 3 Years
Plus: The FBI got at least a little bit hacked, an election-disruption firm gets exposed, Russia mulls allowing “patriotic hacking,” and more...
GitHub Disables Pages of Pro-Russia DDoS Group NoName057(16)
By Deeba Ahmed NoName05716 is a group that has been targeting NATO and Czech presidential election candidates' websites recently. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: GitHub Disables Pages of Pro-Russia DDoS Group NoName05716...
Pro-Russian Hacktivist Group NoName057(16) Launches Cyber Attacks on Ukraine and NATO Organizations
Threat Level Actors Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary NoName05716 is a pro-Russian hacktivist group that has been conducting a campaign of DDoS attacks on Ukraine and NATO organizations since the early days of the war in Ukraine. The group has targeted...
Researchers Uncover MirrorFace Cyber Attacks Targeting Japanese Political Entities
A Chinese-speaking advanced persistent threat APT actor codenamed MirrorFace has been attributed to a spear-phishing campaign targeting Japanese political establishments. The activity, dubbed Operation LiberalFace by ESET, specifically focused on members of an unnamed political party in the natio...
Russian Hacktivist Group Targets Political Websites with DDOS Attacks
A Russian hacktivist group calling itself “The People’s Cyberarmy” called on its members to target the American Democratic party website at with DDOS Distributed Denial of Service attacks this morning, November 8th, 2022, which is Election Day in the United States. A post in their Telegram channe...
Inside the ‘Election Integrity App’ Built to Purge US Voter Rolls
True the Vote’s IV3 app is meant to catch election cheaters. But it has a fundamental flaw...
Twitter’s Ex-Election Chief Is Worried About the US Midterms
Edward Perez says that “manufactured chaos” by bad actors will be even riskier thanks to Elon Musk’s own mayhem...
