Neutrality is one core tenets of electronic money. But during the war in Ukraineexchange yes Blocked accounts of sanctioned Russian individuals and those close to them. Activists also have used apps like Tinder and Google Maps to bypass Russia’s information blockadeprovide a counterweight to the country’s propaganda machine. And Facial recognition algorithms have made identifying Russian soldiers frighteningly easythis can be dangerously counterproductive when the technology is inevitably wrong.
Elsewhere in the world, security researchers have caught the Chinese hacker APT41 spying on US state systems. That in itself was no surprise other than the way they infiltrated—through a pet tracking app and Log4j . Vulnerability—It was an unexpected combination. Fatal errors in a set IoT remote access tool hundreds of thousands of medical devices, ATMs, etc. are at risk. And we looked at how law enforcement in some parts of the work uses phone data to terrorize the LGBTQ community.
We have discovered the way NFT really Work. We took a look YouTube’s Policy Against Election Misinformation—And why it’s not sustainable in the long run. Although it is not strictly a security story, this Joel Kaplan’s in-depth profile on Facebook goes a long way to explaining how those kinds of policies were conceived in the first place.
And so much more! We’ve rounded up all the news here that we didn’t break or cover in depth this week. Click on the title to read the full story. And it’s safe out there.
A week later block Facebook in the country, Russia has now also controlled access to Instagram. It also conducts a criminal investigation against its parent company Meta, with the intention of labeling it an extremist organization. The moves come after Meta announced that it would allow violent calls to Russian soldiers – and the death of Vladimir Putin – to users in the region, a move in the past A time without war would be considered a policy violation. Facebook’s president of global affairs clarified on Friday that the easing policy would only apply to users in Ukraine.
Around the time of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, satellite company Viasat was experiencing a period of outage in parts of Europe. At first, it called the incident a “network event,” but did not provide many other details. Now, as reported by Reuters, Western intelligence agencies have an apparent interest in the hack. It is not yet clear if Russia is responsible, but Viasat has defense contracts with the US and some European countries, which increases the risk of potential Russian incursions.
As part of a $1.5 trillion omnibus spending bill coming to Joe Biden’s desk, critical infrastructure operators will be required to report cyberattacks directly. and ransomware to the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency within 72 hours. It is hoped that this kind of visibility will not only help shape responses to these incidents, but also give the US a more complete picture of how adversaries are attacking it. There are no financial penalties for non-compliance, but CISA will be able to subpoena any organization that gets in the way.
One problem with ransomware is that even if you find people doing it, they can be very difficult to catch. That’s largely thanks to Russia’s historical blindness that has turned to the activism of domestic groups. This week, however, the US attempted to extradite not one but two alleged ransomware operators, including one of those behind the unprecedented Kaseya hack last summer. The other is a Canadian man accused of operating as an affiliate of Netwalker ransomware.
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