After a sleepy primary season, Russia enters 2024 U.S. election fray
Russian influence operations have picked up steam in the past two months, according to a Microsoft report.
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The street artist Andrea Villa installs an anti-war poster depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Joe Biden on April 16, 2024 in Turin, Italy. (Photo by Stefano Guidi/Getty Images) AI -
Conservative demonstrators who allege that the government pressured or colluded with social media platforms to censor right-leaning content protest outside the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, March 18, 2024. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images) Government Defining coercion at heart of Supreme Court case on government jawboning platforms
Monday’s case has major ramifications for the relationship between the government and social media platforms and policing disinformation.
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Supporters of President Joe Biden greet voters on January 23, 2024 in Loudon, New Hampshire. Three New Hampshire voters sued a Democratic operative who admitted to creating an fake AI-generated robocall of President Joe Biden, as well as two companies that allegedly helped. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images) AI New Hampshire voters sue operative, companies behind Biden AI robocall
The complaint argues that the calls were an illegal attempt at voter suppression under the Voting Rights Act and the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
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A picture taken from the plain of Khiam shows a man waving an Iranian flag as smoke rises from burning dry grass, following skirmishes between Lebanese youths and Israeli soldiers, at a rally to mark the 23rd anniversary of Israel’s withdrawal from Lebanon, on May 25, 2023. (Photo by MAHMOUD ZAYYAT/AFP via Getty Images) Government Iran hacking group impersonates defense firms, hostage campaigners
A hacking campaign linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is targeting firms in the defense sector with a pair of new backdoors.
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This illustration photograph taken on October 30, 2023, shows the Meta (former Facebook) logo. (Photo by SEBASTIEN BOZON/AFP via Getty Images) Privacy Meta details actions against eight spyware firms
Details about the spyware firms, based in Italy, Spain and the UAE, were shared by the social media giant in its quarterly adversary threat report.
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Cybersecurity Threats to elections in 2024 and a deepfake in New Hampshire
Katie Harbath, who spent a decade at Facebook helping the company address election security threats
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People walk past a store of Kyivstar, a Ukrainian telecommunications company, in Kyiv on December 12, 2023. (Photo by SERGEI CHUZAVKOV / AFP) Geopolitics Russian hackers reportedly breached telecom network months before attack
The attack on Kyivstar took out mobile and home internet service for as many as 24 million people in Ukraine.
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A woman walks by a Kyivstar store, a Ukrainian telecommunications company, in Kyiv on December 12, 2023. Ukraine’s main phone operator denounced an act of “war” on December 12, 2023 after the hacker attack that led to large-scale failures in its services. (Photo by SERGEI CHUZAVKOV / AFP / Getty Images) Cybersecurity Ukraine’s largest mobile communications provider down after apparent cyber attack
Millions of customers lost mobile phone and home internet service as a result of what Kyivstar said was a cyber attack.
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The American actor Elijah Wood, pictured here at a Hollywood premiere in March, was one of the American actors tricked into recording videos used in a Kremlin information operation. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images) Geopolitics Russian information operation uses US celebrity Cameos to attack Zelensky
Kremlin propagandists tricked a half dozen celebrities into recording videos urging Ukraine’s president to seek treatment for substance abuse.
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A passenger reads a paper featuring images of different facial expressions of then-Prime Minister Vladimir Putin while riding in a subway carriage in Saint-Petersburg, on March 5, 2012. (OLGA MALTSEVA/AFP via Getty Images) Geopolitics Russian AI-generated propaganda struggles to find an audience
A long-running Kremlin propaganda campaign is experimenting with AI to create phony news sites but isn’t reaching a significant audience.