Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2020

Researchers from Citizen Lab uncovered the operations of a hack-for-hire group tracked as Dark Basin that targeted thousands of journalists, elected and senior government officials, advocacy groups, and hedge funds worldwide over 7 years. ” reads the report published by Citizen Lab.

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Google Security

JULY 20, 2021

As Lynn Dohm, executive director of WiCyS, told us, “You cannot put a price tag on the power of community, and last year’s WiCyS Security Training Program proved just that.”

Information Security 103

Information Security Cybersecurity Education 103

Malwarebytes

MARCH 18, 2022

The buildup to the US election was peppered by “any moment now…” style warnings of dramatic and plausible deepfake deployment. Back in 2020, some people argued whether it was helpful to tag static images as deepfakes , and whether it was perhaps more useful to flag them as “cheapfakes” as a way to cleanly separate them from video content.

Social Engineering 104

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 15, 2023

Now, the news coverage has been mas-sively hit on a digital note affecting mayoral election news coverage that was scheduled to take place from Tuesday. However, some senior journalists will be allowed to access the news room on the election night and a separate set-up for the publishing has been arranged.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

A file that attempts to pass itself as ‘image/png’ but does not have the proper.PNG format loads a PHP web shell in compromised sites by replacing the legitimate shortcut icon tags with a path to the fake.PNG file. Then US Cyber Command took down Trickbot temporarily ahead of the elections.

Cryptocurrency 104

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Thus, they started misinformation that could have misled US voters in the then elections as it was tagged as NSFW content. NOTE- In the year 2020, cyber criminals were seen hacking devices of TikTok users and were seen posting fake videos onto their accounts that were never related to the user.

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NopSec

JANUARY 31, 2024

Researchers discovered that the same mechanism that facilitated path traversal via classname manipulation could also be exploited to define ColdFusion specific elements, i.e. server side scripts, which includes the <cfexecute> tag used to start a process on the server. Arbitrary system files will never contain ColdFusion metatags.

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VPN Government Risk Hacking 59

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

APT29 along with APT28 cyber espionage group was involved in the Democratic National Committee hack and the wave of attacks aimed at the 2016 US Presidential Elections. Google TAG experts also observed the Russia-linked ATP28 group exploiting the flaw in attacks against Ukraine users.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2019

In mid-March , a suspicious Office document referencing the Ukraine elections appeared in the wild, is it related to APT28 and upcoming elections? In mid-March, a suspicious Office document referencing the Ukraine elections appeared in the wild. Figure 4: Payload stored in “Company” tag of document metadata. Introduction.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 5, 2020

Chances are, the concept of "a foreign government interfering in an American election" sounds pretty commonplace to you. With an acronym like TAG, you might expect a lighthearted, playful Google group running in a field. With an acronym like TAG, you might expect a lighthearted, playful Google group running in a field.

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Architect Security

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

If you post a photo to Facebook, its own enormous custom facial recognition database can identify other Facebook users, and in some cases it will prompt you to tag them. If you have uploaded any non–GPS tagged images to Google Photos, you may have noticed that they may still show location information. But on Oct.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

This tag was in the source code over at secure.donaldjtrump.com/donate-homepage yet it was pulling script directly off Igor Escobar's GitHub repository for the project. You can safely use an integrity attribute on your script tag because if ever we want to change the implementation, we'll simply rev the version. from its current state.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

It’s the best way to chronicle an event through what people share, whether it’s a conference, wedding, election or natural disaster. Curate several articles into a single curation just by tagging multiple articles. Curate Video from YouTube and other video sources, with the video pre-embedded into your post.

Marketing 52

Marketing 52

Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2020

Foreign hackers are targeting campaign staffs for both President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden ahead of the November US election. Google TAG revealed that China-linked cyberespionage group APT31 is targeting Biden campaign staff, while the Iran-linked APT35 group is targeting Trump campaign staff with spear-phishing attacks.

Advertising 94

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 3, 2021

Micah Lee from The Intercept did a quick analysis on the largest groups: Of the top 20 biggest groups (sorted by most members) on Gab: 5 are devoted to Trump/election misinformation 5 are devoted to QAnon pic.twitter.com/L0sLHJtEAh — Micah (@micahflee) March 2, 2021 And then there's the big file - statuses.sql with 62.4GB of data in it.

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