Claude AI Exploited to Operate 100+ Fake Political Personas in Global Influence Campaign

Artificial intelligence AI company Anthropic has revealed that unknown threat actors leveraged its Claude chatbot for an "influence-as-a-service" operation to engage with authentic accounts across Facebook and X. The sophisticated activity, branded as financially-motivated, is said to have used i...

Desert Dexter Targets 900 Victims Using Facebook Ads and Telegram Malware Links

The Middle East and North Africa have become the target of a new campaign that delivers a modified version of a known malware called AsyncRAT since September 2024. "The campaign, which leverages social media to distribute malware, is tied to the region's current geopolitical climate," Positive...

Trump 2.0 Brings Cuts to Cyber, Consumer Protections

One month into his second term, President Trump's actions to shrink the government through mass layoffs, firings and withholding funds allocated by Congress have thrown federal cybersecurity and consumer protection programs into disarray. At the same time, agencies are battling an ongoing effort ...

Gcore DDoS Radar Reveals 56% YoY Increase in DDoS Attacks

Gcore's latest DDoS Radar report analyzes attack data from Q3–Q4 2024, revealing a 56% YoY rise in the total number of DDoS attacks with the largest attack peaking at a record 2 Tbps. The financial services sector saw the most dramatic increase, with a 117% rise in attacks, while gaming remained...

CVE-2024-13248

Incorrect Privilege Assignment vulnerability in Drupal Private content allows Target Influence via Framing.This issue affects Private content: from 0.0.0 before 2.1.0...

CVE-2024-13249 Node Access Rebuild Progressive - Less critical - Access bypass - SA-CONTRIB-2024-013

Improper Ownership Management vulnerability in Drupal Node Access Rebuild Progressive allows Target Influence via Framing.This issue affects Node Access Rebuild Progressive: from 7.X-1.0 before 7.X-1.2...

CVE-2024-13249

The Node Access Rebuild Progressive module in Drupal CMS (versions 7.X-1.0 through 7.X-1.2 ) is vulnerable to an Improper Ownership Management issue. The root cause stems from the module failing to sufficiently reset the state of content access upon uninstallation, which allows for Target Influen...

CVE-2024-13248 Private content - Moderately critical - Access bypass - SA-CONTRIB-2024-012

Incorrect Privilege Assignment vulnerability in Drupal Private content allows Target Influence via Framing.This issue affects Private content: from 0.0.0 before 2.1.0...

CVE-2024-13246 Node Access Rebuild Progressive - Less critical - Access bypass - SA-CONTRIB-2024-010

Improper Ownership Management vulnerability in Drupal Node Access Rebuild Progressive allows Target Influence via Framing.This issue affects Node Access Rebuild Progressive: from 0.0.0 before 2.0.2...

CVE-2024-13246 Node Access Rebuild Progressive - Less critical - Access bypass - SA-CONTRIB-2024-010

Improper Ownership Management vulnerability in Drupal Node Access Rebuild Progressive allows Target Influence via Framing.This issue affects Node Access Rebuild Progressive: from 0.0.0 before 2.0.2...

CVE-2024-13249: Improper Ownership Management

Improper Ownership Management vulnerability in Drupal Node Access Rebuild Progressive allows Target Influence via Framing.This issue affects Node Access Rebuild Progressive: from 7.X-1.0 before 7.X-1.2...

CVE-2024-13246: Improper Ownership Management

Improper Ownership Management vulnerability in Drupal Node Access Rebuild Progressive allows Target Influence via Framing.This issue affects Node Access Rebuild Progressive: from 0.0.0 before 2.0.2...

CVE-2024-13248: Incorrect Privilege Assignment

Incorrect Privilege Assignment vulnerability in Drupal Private content allows Target Influence via Framing.This issue affects Private content: from 0.0.0 before 2.1.0...

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...