2024-05-31
“In the past few months, hundreds of ByteDance and TikTok engineers in both the U.S. and China were ordered to begin separating millions of lines of code, sifting through the company's algorithm that pairs users with videos to their liking.” https://www.reuters.com/...
Reuters
Sources: TikTok is working on a clone of its recommendation algorithm for its US users that may result in a version that operates independently of ByteDance
TikTok is working on a clone of its recommendation algorithm for its 170 million U.S. users that may result in a version …
2024-02-07
That line, “She took his coat and hung it up”, describes the moments before a wife murders her unsuspecting husband with a frozen leg of lamb. 🐑 Dutch intelligence found COATHANGER inside an armed forces network used by 50 people for unclassified research in 2023.
Reuters
The Netherlands says Chinese state-sponsored hackers broke into the Dutch Ministry of Defence's internal network in 2023, using a Fortinet vulnerability
It's the first time the Netherlands has publicly attributed cyber espionage to China, as national security tensions grow between the two countries. More here: https://www.reuters.com/...
Reuters
The Netherlands says Chinese state-sponsored hackers broke into the Dutch Ministry of Defence's internal network in 2023, using a Fortinet vulnerability
NEW: Chinese state-backed cyber spies hacked into an internal computer network at the Dutch Ministry of Defence last year, intelligence agencies in the Netherlands said on Tuesday. Update soon.
Reuters
The Netherlands says Chinese state-sponsored hackers broke into the Dutch Ministry of Defence's internal network in 2023, using a Fortinet vulnerability
🚨NEW: Chinese spies used novel malware dubbed COATHANGER 🪝to maintain access to a military network last year, Netherlands intelligence agencies say. The name comes from code that contained a line from a dark Roald Dahl story, ‘Lamb to the Slaughter’. https://www.reuters.com/...
Reuters
The Netherlands says Chinese state-sponsored hackers broke into the Dutch Ministry of Defence's internal network in 2023, using a Fortinet vulnerability
2023-08-07
NEW: North Korean hackers secretly breached computer networks at a major Russian missile developer for at least five months last year, according to technical evidence reviewed by Reuters and analysis by security researchers at @SentinelOne. https://www.reuters.com/...
Reuters
Researchers: North Korean hackers placed backdoors at Russian rocket design bureau NPO Mashinostroyeniya for at least five months in 2022 to see emails and more
An elite group of North Korean hackers secretly breached computer networks at a major Russian missile developer for at least five months …
2023-05-24
Incursions into the Middle East and Africa appear less common, making the focus and scale of its hacking activities in Kenya particularly noteworthy, a report written by a defense contractor and reviewed by Reuters said. (6/7)
Reuters
Sources, reports, and analysis: Chinese hackers targeted the Kenyan government from late 2019 until at least 2022 to find information on debt owed to China
Chinese hackers targeted Kenya's government in a widespread, years-long series of digital intrusions against key ministries and state institutions … Tweets: @bing_chris , @bing_chr...
In this months-long investigation, sources told us the hacks were aimed, at least in part, at gaining information on debt owed to Beijing by Nairobi: Kenya is a strategic link in the Belt and Road Initiative - Xi Jinping's plan for a global infrastructure network. (2/7)
Reuters
Sources, reports, and analysis: Chinese hackers targeted the Kenyan government from late 2019 until at least 2022 to find information on debt owed to China
Chinese hackers targeted Kenya's government in a widespread, years-long series of digital intrusions against key ministries and state institutions … Tweets: @bing_chris , @bing_chr...
The Chinese state-linked hacking team behind this activity is known as “BackdoorDiplomacy” in the cybersecurity research community, because of its record of trying to further the objectives of Chinese diplomatic strategy. (4/7)
Reuters
Sources, reports, and analysis: Chinese hackers targeted the Kenyan government from late 2019 until at least 2022 to find information on debt owed to China
Chinese hackers targeted Kenya's government in a widespread, years-long series of digital intrusions against key ministries and state institutions … Tweets: @bing_chris , @bing_chr...
EXCLUSIVE: Chinese cyber spies targeted Kenya's government in a years-long series of digital intrusions against key ministries and state institutions, including its presidential office and an email server used by Kenya's main intelligence agency. (1/7) https://www.reuters.com/...
Reuters
Sources, reports, and analysis: Chinese hackers targeted the Kenyan government from late 2019 until at least 2022 to find information on debt owed to China
Chinese hackers targeted Kenya's government in a widespread, years-long series of digital intrusions against key ministries and state institutions … Tweets: @bing_chris , @bing_chr...
2022-11-14
@Pushwoosh is a software firm which presents itself on social media and in U.S. regulatory filings as a U.S. company, but is actually headquartered thousands of miles away in the Siberian town of Novosibirsk, Russia, @Reuters found. https://twitter.com/...
Reuters
An investigation finds thousands of iOS and Android apps, including from the CDC and US Army, used Russia-based tech company Pushwoosh's code for notifications
Thousands of smartphone applications in Apple (AAPL.O) and Google's (GOOGL.O) online stores contain computer code developed …
“The data Pushwoosh collects is similar to data that could be collected by Facebook, Google or Amazon, but the difference is that all the Pushwoosh data in the U.S. is sent to servers controlled by a company in Russia,” said @thezedwards, who has tracked the code for years.
Reuters
An investigation finds thousands of iOS and Android apps, including from the CDC and US Army, used Russia-based tech company Pushwoosh's code for notifications
Thousands of smartphone applications in Apple (AAPL.O) and Google's (GOOGL.O) online stores contain computer code developed …
Their SDK allows app developers to send notifications to - and also track or profile - users. It has been embedded into almost 8,000 apps in the Google and Apple app stores. On its website, the company says it has more than 2.3 billion devices in its database. https://twitter.com/...
Reuters
An investigation finds thousands of iOS and Android apps, including from the CDC and US Army, used Russia-based tech company Pushwoosh's code for notifications
Thousands of smartphone applications in Apple (AAPL.O) and Google's (GOOGL.O) online stores contain computer code developed …
NEW from @marisaataylor and I: Russian software disguised as American finds its way into a wide array of international companies, influential nonprofits and government agencies, including @USArmy, @CDCgov, @Unilever, @UEFA, @NRA and @UKLabour apps. https://www.reuters.com/...
Reuters
An investigation finds thousands of iOS and Android apps, including from the CDC and US Army, used Russia-based tech company Pushwoosh's code for notifications
Thousands of smartphone applications in Apple (AAPL.O) and Google's (GOOGL.O) online stores contain computer code developed …
2022-06-16
New from @Bing_Chris and I: The U.S. government has pushed new, increased funding into three VPNs since the start of the Ukraine conflict to help Russians sidestep censors and access Western media: https://www.reuters.com/...
Reuters
Sources: the US increased its funding into VPN companies nthLink, Psiphon, and Lantern by about 50% since February to support the surge in their Russian users
2020-11-21
@Reuters Update: Facebook released their biannual transparency report on Friday. It showed they censored 834 posts in Vietnam upon gov't request in the first half of 2020. 14 profiles were removed “in error”, the report says. https://twitter.com/...
The Verge
Facebook's Q3 transparency report: 0.1%-0.11% of what users see violates hate speech rules; 95% of hate speech takedowns are proactive, up from 24% in 2017
@Reuters Update: Facebook released their biannual transparency report on Friday. It showed they censored 834 posts in Vietnam upon gov't request in the first half of 2020. 14 profiles were removed “in error”, the report says. https://twitter.com/...
Rest of World
Facebook created country-specific community standards for the first time ahead of Myanmar's general election, and seemingly reduced hate speech and misinfo
sometimes damaging — of Western tech companies in the non-western world. Equally eager to see more work on the impact of Chinese tech companies in the non-Western world. In short, ...
2020-04-22
For about 7 weeks from mid-February, Vietnam's state-run internet providers shut down Facebook's local servers, slowing traffic here to a crawl until it agreed to significantly increase the censorship of “anti-state” posts for local users. Exclusive: https://www.reuters.com/... (1/7)
Reuters
Sources: Vietnamese state-telcos took Facebook's local servers offline, slowing traffic, until the company agreed to increase censorship of “anti-state” posts
HANOI (Reuters) - Facebook's local servers in Vietnam were taken offline early this year, slowing local traffic …
Since 2016, Vietnam has become of one of Facebook's biggest markets in Asia (65 mln users). Digital advertising revenue in Vietnam was worth around $550 mln in 2018, 70% of which went to Facebook and Google. More: https://www.reuters.com/... (7/7)
Reuters
Sources: Vietnamese state-telcos took Facebook's local servers offline, slowing traffic, until the company agreed to increase censorship of “anti-state” posts
HANOI (Reuters) - Facebook's local servers in Vietnam were taken offline early this year, slowing local traffic …