Tesla Tesla’s Nevada Gigafactory was the target of a concerted plot to cripple the company’s network with malware, CEO Elon Musk confirmed on Thursday afternoon. The Read More
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The news: Russian hackers targeted UK, US, and Canadian researchers developing coronavirus vaccines, according to a report from the United Kingdom, American, and Canadian intelligence services. Read More
The Internet Research Agency is infamous for flooding mainstream social media platforms with compelling disinformation campaigns. The GRU, Russia's military intelligence agency, deploys strategic data leaks Read More
Getty Carefully planned posts on Twitter by Russian and Chinese sources are using the COVID-19 pandemic to spread discord in the west. The apparent goal is Read More
Yandex, the largest search engine in Russia, announced a new algorithm update named “Vega” that introduced “1,500 improvements to Yandex Search.” The biggest and most significant Read More
This time, a coordinated group of Russian accounts that appears to show some links to the Internet Research Agency largely took to Facebook’s photo-sharing app, Instagram, Read More
The Mueller investigation confirmed that the Russian’s meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election; however, it is not believed to have had a material impact on Read More
Image copyright Computational Propaganda Research Project Image caption One bogus posts featured an image of Eric Garner, who died after a policeman put him in a Read More
Written by Jeff Stone Oct 8, 2019 | CYBERSCOOP While Russian propagandists relied heavily on Facebook and Twitter to spread disinformation before the 2016 U.S. presidential Read More
Patrick Lux | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesThe same kinds of digital dirty tricks used to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and beyond Read More