Romania Cancels Presidential Election Results After Alleged Russian Meddling on TikTok

In a historic decision, Romania's constitutional court has annulled the result of the first round of voting in the presidential election amid allegations of Russian interference. As a result, the second round vote, which was scheduled for December 8, 2024, will no longer take place. Călin...

AI-Powered Fake News Campaign Targets Western Support for Ukraine and U.S. Elections

A Moscow-based company sanctioned by the U.S. earlier this year has been linked to yet another influence operation designed to turn public opinion against Ukraine and erode Western support since at least December 2023. The covert campaign undertaken by Social Design Agency SDA leverages videos...

The US Is Calling Out Foreign Influence Campaigns Faster Than Ever

The 2024 elections were a high-water mark for naming and shaming threat actors from foreign governments. There’s still work to be done, though, on how to attribute disinformation campaigns most effectively...

CVE-2024-52921

In Bitcoin Core before 25.0, a peer can affect the download state of other peers by sending a mutated block...

Microsoft Warns Foreign Disinformation Is Hitting the US Election From All Directions

Russia, Iran, and China are targeting the US election with an evolving array of influence operations in the last days of campaign season...

OpenAI Blocks 20 Global Malicious Campaigns Using AI for Cybercrime and Disinformation

OpenAI on Wednesday said it has disrupted more than 20 operations and deceptive networks across the world that attempted to use its platform for malicious purposes since the start of the year. This activity encompassed debugging malware, writing articles for websites, generating biographies for...

Russia-Backed Media Outlets Are Under Fire in the US—but Still Trusted Worldwide

The US government says outlets like RT work closely with Russian intelligence, and platforms have removed or banned their content. But they’re still influential all around the world...

Talk of election security is good, but we still need more money to solve the problem

Last week, six Secretaries of State testified to U.S. Congress about the current state of election security ahead of November's Presidential election. Some of the same topics came up as usual -- disinformation campaigns, influence from foreign actors, and the physical protection of poll workers o...

MAL-2024-8700 Malicious code in @diotoborg/voluptatibus-impedit (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: ghsa-malware f899aca45c84128990918b2b6dd9dd004f1c68c1247ccbe88cd9e4d2bd4641ed Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be...

Command with Confidence: Insights from Andrew Bustamante

At the recent Take Command Summit, former CIA intelligence officer and US Air Force combat veteran Andrew Bustamante shared valuable tools, tactics, and techniques from elite intelligence agencies with Rapid7’s Americas Field CTO Jeffrey Gardner in an informal chat. His session, "Command with...

OpenAI Blocks Iranian Influence Operation Using ChatGPT for U.S. Election Propaganda

OpenAI on Friday said it banned a set of accounts linked to what it said was an Iranian covert influence operation that leveraged ChatGPT to generate content that, among other things, focused on the upcoming U.S. presidential election. "This week we identified and took down a cluster of ChatGPT...

Unveiling the 2024 Imperva DDoS Threat Landscape Report

In the ever-changing landscape of cybersecurity, Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attacks continue to be a significant threat. To help organizations stay ahead, were excited to introduce the 2024 Imperva DDoS Threat Landscape Report. This comprehensive report offers a deep dive into DDoS attack...

CVE-2024-21513

Versions of the package langchain-experimental from 0.0.15 and before 0.0.21 are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution when retrieving values from the database, the code will attempt to call 'eval' on all values. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability and execute arbitrary python code if the...

US bans Kaspersky, warns: “Immediately stop using that software”

The US government will ban the sale of Kaspersky antivirus products to new customers in the United States starting July 20, with a follow-on deadline to prohibit the cybersecurity company from providing users with software updates after September 29. The move follows years of allegations that the...

KrebsOnSecurity Threatened with Defamation Lawsuit Over Fake Radaris CEO

On March 8, 2024, KrebsOnSecurity published a deep dive on the consumer data broker Radaris, showing how the original owners are two men in Massachusetts who operated multiple Russian language dating services and affiliate programs, in addition to a dizzying array of people-search websites. The...

Ransomware Attacks Are Getting Worse

Plus: US lawmakers have nothing to say about an Israeli influence campaign aimed at US voters, a former LA Dodgers owner wants to fix the internet, and more...

US Leaders Dodge Questions About Israel’s Influence Campaign

Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries has joined US intelligence officials in ignoring repeated inquiries about Israel’s “malign” efforts to covertly influence US voters...

Google Takes Down Influence Campaigns Tied to China, Indonesia, and Russia

Google has revealed that it took down 1,320 YouTube channels and 1,177 Blogger blogs as part of a coordinated influence operation connected to the People's Republic of China PRC. "The coordinated inauthentic network uploaded content in Chinese and English about China and U.S. foreign affairs,"...

OpenAI, Meta, and TikTok Crack Down on Covert Influence Campaigns, Some AI-Powered

OpenAI on Thursday disclosed that it took steps to cut off five covert influence operations IO originating from China, Iran, Israel, and Russia that sought to abuse its artificial intelligence AI tools to manipulate public discourse or political outcomes online while obscuring their true identity...

CVE-2024-32969 vantage6 collaboration admins can extend their influence by expanding the collaboration

vantage6 is an open-source infrastructure for privacy preserving analysis. Collaboration administrators can add extra organizations to their collaboration that can extend their influence. For example, organizations that they include can then create new users for which they know the passwords, and...