Credit to Author: Anant Pulgam| Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2018 12:44:21 +0000
GandCrab has been in the wild since last week of January 2018. Over the period it kept learning from its mistakes and GandCrab’s agile development grabbed the attention of many security researchers. From moving its servers to Namecoin powered Top Level Domain (.BIT TLD) servers after the first breach, then learning from…
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Credit to Author: Jason Parham| Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2018 18:25:18 +0000
A new report documents how the Internet Research Agency had a much more sustained, deliberate focus on black Americans.
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Credit to Author: Jason Parham| Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2018 18:25:18 +0000
A new report documents how the Internet Research Agency had a much more sustained, deliberate focus on black Americans.
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Credit to Author: Paris Martineau| Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2018 18:13:11 +0000
A Senate report finds that Russia’s Internet Research Agency was far more active, and more successful, on Instagram in 2017 than on Facebook or Twitter.
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Credit to Author: Nicholas Thompson| Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2018 13:27:20 +0000
A new report for the Senate exposes how the IRA used every major social media platform to target voters before and after the 2016 election.
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Credit to Author: Louise Matsakis| Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2018 11:00:00 +0000
What happens when Instagram glitches or Slack stalls? Spoiler: We don’t log off—we just scurry off to different (sometimes darker) corners of the web.
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Credit to Author: Garrett M. Graff| Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2018 10:00:00 +0000
The investigation in to Russian interference and Donald Trump has sprung so many offshoots, it’s hard to keep track. Here’s a comprehensive list. It’s long.
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Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2018 14:00:00 +0000
Chinese hackers targeting the Navy, charity scammers, and more security news this week.
Read moreCredit to Author: Ghanshyam More| Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2018 11:58:50 +0000
On the back of an upswing in Ransomware activity, we decided to carry out an in-depth analysis of Ghost Ransomware. Interesting fact about this malware is that it uses multiple components to encrypt user files. Technical Analysis : Main malware executable (Ghost.exe) is compiled using the DotNet Framework. The infection…
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Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2018 17:22:03 +0000
In the latest in its long string of 2018 incidents, Facebook let developers access the private photos of millions of users.
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Credit to Author: Louise Matsakis| Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2018 00:38:25 +0000
The one-day pop-up kiosk is meant to show that Facebook takes users’ privacy concerns seriously. It also was an opportunity to gather more data.
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