Fishwrap Campaign Sways Social Media Users with Old News

An influence operation that recycles old news about terror incidents and re-publishes them as if they were new is making the rounds on social media, according to Recorded Future analysis. The technique, which the researchers have dubbed Fishwrap since it repurposes old news, is also using a speci...

Estonia's Volunteer Cyber Militia

Interesting -- although short and not very detailed -- article about Estonia's volunteer cyber-defense militia. Padar's militia of amateur IT workers, economists, lawyers, and other white-hat types are grouped in the city of Tartu, about 65 miles from the Russian border, and in the capital,...

Google Search Results Spoofed to Create Fake News

UPDATE A spoofing technique that creates fake Google search results has been uncovered, which could be used in political influence campaigns or for other nefarious purposes. In this age of fake news, people are more wary than ever of efforts to sway public opinion using disinformation – this has...

A Growing Frontier for Terrorist Groups: Unsuspecting Chat Apps

Opinion: As Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube crack down on extremist propaganda, ISIS recruiters are exploiting lesser-known messenger apps...

Why a Hacker Exploited Printers to Make PewDiePie Propaganda

An anonymous hacker has claimed credit for the prank, which is part of an ongoing YouTube subscriber feud...

Propaganda and the Weakening of Trust in Government

On November 4, 2016, the hacker "Guccifer 2.0,: a front for Russia's military intelligence service, claimed in a blogpost that the Democrats were likely to use vulnerabilities to hack the presidential elections. On November 9, 2018, President Donald Trump started tweeting about the senatorial...

Iron Mind: Defending Against Propaganda & Counter Victimization

Thomas Jefferson had it right. Propaganda is the greatest threat to any democracy. Or did you just believe a quote that I made up with a picture of him to add credence to this blog? Iron Palm or Iron Hand is a body of training techniques in various martial arts. It is originally one of the 72 art...

To Curb Terrorist Propaganda Online, Look to YouTube. No, Really.

Opinion: Despite YouTube’s crackdown, extremist groups are still exploiting other Google platforms...

Facebook Graph Metadata Crosswalk Mapping Proof Of Concept

!/usr/bin/perl Facebook 'Graph' metadata crosswalk mapping PoC 2018 Todor Donev https://ethical-hacker.org/ https://facebook.com/ethicalhackerorg Description: Criminal hacker CRACKER can take advantage of this weakness by creating a specialized database to manipulate facebook users with fake news...

Facebook Graph Phone Number Metadata Crosswalk Mapping Proof Of Concept

!/usr/bin/perl Facebook 'Graph' Phone Number metadata crosswalk mapping PoC 2018 Todor Donev https://ethical-hacker.org/ https://facebook.com/ethicalhackerorg Description: Criminal hacker CRACKER can take advantage of this weakness by creating a specialized database to manipulate facebook users...

Russian Propaganda Talks on Capitol Hill Thrust Cyber Espionage into the Public Eye

Leading tech executives from Google, Facebook, and Twitter returned to Capitol Hill on Wednesday for a second day of testimony as senators from both sides of the aisle took the companies to task for allegedly failing to defuse Russia's attempt to sway American voters ahead of the 2016 presidentia...

The Inner Workings of Fake News

The moniker of fake news has been utilized in numerous circles recently, including within government, press and cybersecurity, but this concept actually dates back far beyond the past year. Intentionally misleading propaganda materials have been a linchpin of communication for years, particularly...

Tainted Leaks

Last year, I wrote about the potential for doxers to alter documents before they leaked them. It was a theoretical threat when I wrote it, but now Citizen Lab has documented this technique in the wild: This report describes an extensive Russia-linked phishing and disinformation campaign. It...

Pawn Storm: The Power of Social Engineering

In our latest report on Pawn Storm a.k.a. APT28, Fancy Bear, Strontium, etc., researchers expose the scope and scale of the cyber espionage group’s attacks but more importantly their cyber tradecraft. Our researchers have observed activity going back seven years targeting government, military,...

Fake News at Work in Spam Kingpin’s Arrest?

Over the past several days, many Western news media outlets have predictably devoured thinly-sourced reporting from a Russian publication that the arrest last week of a Russian spam kingpin in Spain was related to hacking attacks linked to last year’s U.S. election. While there is scant evidence...

Propaganda - Dangerous filesystem permissions, WebView code execution vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Propaganda published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

Turkey Blocks GitHub, Google Drive and Dropbox to Censor RedHack Leaks

Turkey is again in the news for banning online services, and this time, it's a bunch of sites and services offered by big technology giants. Turkey government has reportedly blocked access to cloud storage services including Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox, and Google Drive, as well as the code hosti...

Pro-ISIS Hackers release 'Kill List' Of 43 United States Officials

In Brief A group of pro-ISIS hackers calling themselves the United Cyber Caliphate UCC has issued a "Kill List" containing the names of dozens of U.S. government personnel at the Pentagon, Department of Homeland Security, State Department, and several other federal agencies. Meanwhile, the US...

Facebook Offering You $1000 to Run Advertisement Against Terrorism

Over a past few times, we have seen a steady growth in the online recruitment of Jihadis from social networking sites by many radical groups. ISIS has topped the online recruitment, and it is the only terror group that leverages the enormous power of Twitter and Facebook to radicalize young minds...

Save the Date — 11th December: Anonymous to Celebrate 'ISIS Trolling Day'

After hacking and taking down social media accounts of ISIS members, the online Hacktivist group Anonymous is back again with its new plan to harass the Islamic State IS militant group that was behind the horrific terror attack in Paris. Anonymous declared total war against ISIS after the last...