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Misinformation Monthly – November 2023

Misinformation Monthly – November 2023

Each month, our experts at Cyabra list some of the interesting articles, items, essays and stories they’ve read this month. Come back every month for the current misinformation, disinformation, and…

Bin Laden’s Bot Army: “Letter to America” Fake Spreaders

Bin Laden’s Bot Army: “Letter to America” Fake Spreaders

The Beginning of the Trend – and the Forced Ending It’s been over two decades since Osama bin Laden, the Al-Qaeda leader responsible for 9/11, delivered his “Letter to America”…

Three Examples of GenAI Used for Disinformation

Three Examples of GenAI Used for Disinformation

AI-generated texts and images unintentionally offer great value and great opportunities for bad actors online. With one single click, they can create millions of texts, images, videos (Deepfake and others)…

Chinese Bots Infiltrate Taiwanese Election Discourse 

Chinese Bots Infiltrate Taiwanese Election Discourse 

The presidential elections in Taiwan (officially the Republic of China) will be held on 13 January 2024. The two leading candidates are Hou Yu-ih and Lai Ching-te. Hou, the current…

GenAI: A Weapon of Mass Disinformation

GenAI: A Weapon of Mass Disinformation

This blog post explores the 5 different ways in which bad actors utilize GenAI to make disinformation spread more easily and effectively, and explains why, with the help of GenAI,…

GenAI: The New Weapon for Bad Actors

GenAI: The New Weapon for Bad Actors

The introduction of GenAI altered the online threat landscape significantly. Bad actors have long ago learned to harness social media for their needs – conducting social engineering attacks, engaging in…

1 in 4 Profiles Are Pro-Hamas Fake Accounts: The Online Battlefront

1 in 4 Profiles Are Pro-Hamas Fake Accounts: The Online Battlefront

Hamas’ assault on Israel is aided by a coordinated influence operations campaign involving tens of thousands of fake profiles. In their efforts to gain worldwide public support, these fake profiles…

Protect Your Executives From Social Media Threats

Protect Your Executives From Social Media Threats

The field of executive protection has always been a challenge for enterprise companies, and is known to grow in tandem with a company’s growth. Threats against CEOs, board members, and…

Integrating Social Media Threats into MSSPs

Integrating Social Media Threats into MSSPs

Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) play a critical role in protecting organizations from cybersecurity threats, such as phishing, hackers, data theft, and other security breaches. However, MSSPs are usually very…