Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new version of a well-known Android malware family dubbed FakeCall that employs voice phishing (aka vishing) techniques to trick users into parting with their personal information.

#CoSoSec

New FakeCall Malware Variant Hijacks Android Devices for Fraudulent Banking Calls

https://thehackernews.com/2024/11/new-fakecall-malware-variant-hijacks.html

Chris Rock is known for being a security researcher. But he’s also a black hat incident responder. He tells us about a job he did in the middle east

https://x.com/chrisrockhacker

#DarknetDiaries #Podcasts

Check out this Podcast: 151: Chris Rock

https://player.fm/1BnaQMG

The world's first wood-panelled satellite has been launched into space to test the suitability of timber as a renewable building material in future exploration of destinations like the Moon and Mars.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y3qzd5ql9o

Named LignoSat, after the Latin word for wood, its panels have been built from a type of magnolia tree, using a traditional technique without screws or glue.

Meanwhile

Liverpool winning 4-0

#ChampionsLeague

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Invisible ink, delayed flights and political meddling - elections are a symbol of democracy, so how can they become the opposite?

Don is joined for this episode by Brian Klaas, co-author of 'How to Rig an Election' to find out. What makes a free and fair election? What techniques have authoritarians used to have themselves elected? And how widespread has this been throughout history?

#HistoryHits << American #Podcasts

Elections Explained: A History of Rigged Elections

https://player.fm/1BnYqlK

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But yeah greatest democracy on the planet

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Basically the US forefathers didn't trust the commoners

Wendy Schiller explained the choice of an electoral college system more than 200 years ago was rooted in a distrust of citizens to make a reasoned choice: “The origins of the electoral college were not supposed to reflect voter opinion at all – it was to be a gate against making a bad choice. It was an elite bulwark against popular opinion.”

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Mainly what I need to remind myself is population of state

"Each state is allocated a set number of electoral votes, in line with the size of its population"

Ever since the 2016 election, which was the first ever US election i "watched", I've had to remind myself how the college vote thingy works

So, for non-americans

US election: how does the electoral college voting system work?

https://theconversation.com/us-election-how-does-the-electoral-college-voting-system-work-242283

It’s not one electoral contest, but 50 separate races - It can allow for unpredictable and unruly outcomes

#Election 2024

https://youtu.be/tWZAbKU-JzE

This election has been brutal

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According to Microsoft, which tracks cybersecurity threats, Storm-1516 “consistently launders narratives through videos seeding scandalous claims from fake journalists and nonexistent whistleblowers and amplifying that disinformation via inauthentic news sites

(PDF report)

https://share.counter.social/s/719ccb

Clemson University’s report links the Foundation to Battle Injustice to Storm-1516, a Russian group previously credited for creating a fake video showing Haitian people illegally voting in Georgia, a video falsely implicating Vice President Kamala Harris in a decade-old hit-and-run, an impersonation video used to maliciously accuse Tim Walz of sexual abuse, and a fake video of ballots being destroyed in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

Mira Terada, head of the Foundation to Battle Injustice, shared the video on X and is the one conducting the interview in the video. Terada served two years in a U.S. prison for money laundering in connection to cocaine smuggling and is now seen in Russia as “an example of U.S. injustice,” according to a report on Russian disinformation from Clemson University’s Media Forensics Hub.

/nosanitize

https://open.clemson.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1009&c

Terada’s X account was suspended after publishing the video.

Russian actors “manufactured and amplified a recent video that falsely depicted an interview with an individual claiming election fraud in Arizona, which involved creating fake overseas ballots and changing voter rolls to favor Vice President Kamala Harris. The Arizona Secretary of State has already refuted the video’s claim as false,” the agencies said in a joint statement.

Whistleblower video alleging Arizona vote rigging is part of Russian disinformation campaign - On Nov. 4, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) confirmed that Russian actors manufactured the video

https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/press-releases/press-releases-2024/4015-pr-29-24

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I honestly don't think it'll be as bad as Jan 6th

it'll more likely be small "outbreaks" in certain states, small protests, violent outbreaks etc... which might actually look worse than it is because media will hype anything up - media will create it into a much bigger thing

Anyhooooo thats what I think