Disinformation

Three weeks before Americans vote in the 2026 midterm election, fraudsters are borrowing candidate names, logos and slogans to collect fake donations and harvest personal …

The UK government will create a new body to track and disrupt disinformation campaigns run by hostile states, Prime Minister Andy Burnham announced at the United Nations …

AI-generated election misinformation could shape public opinion and influence the lives of millions of people. To address those risks, OpenAI outlined a series of safeguards …

Dutch authorities arrested two men and seized 800 servers linked to a hosting provider that investigators say supported Russian activities aimed at undermining democracy and …

Cybersecurity is inseparable from geopolitics. Ongoing conflicts, sanctions, trade wars, geoeconomic rivalry, and technological competition have pushed state competition into …

A single image can shift public opinion faster than a long post. Text to image systems can be pushed to create misleading political visuals, even when safety filters are in …

Bot farms have moved into the center of information warfare, using automated accounts to manipulate public opinion, influence elections, and weaken trust in institutions. …

Generative AI has helped lower the barrier for entry for malicious actors and has made them more efficient, i.e., quicker at creating convincing deepfakes, mounting phishing …

Companies across industries are seeing more bot-driven attacks, both basic and advanced, according to DataDome. An analysis of over 14,000 websites uncovered alarming gaps in …

The frequency of phishing attacks is rising as attackers increasingly utilize AI to execute more scams than ever before. In this Help Net Security video, Abhilash Garimella, …

The US Justice Department (DoJ) has seized two US-based domains used by Russian threat actors to create fake profiles on X (formerly Twitter) that would spread disinformation …

Meta, the company that owns some of the biggest social networks in use today, has explained how it means to tackle disinformation related to the upcoming EU Parliament …