US charges five hackers part of Chinese state-sponsored group APT41
US says APT41 orchestrated intrusions at more than 100 companies across the world, ranging from software vendors, video gaming companies, telcos, and more.
Data Scientist Sara-Jayne Terp is a Modern Paul Revere
The misinfosec group eventually developed a structure for cataloging misinformation techniques, based on the ATT&CK Framework. In keeping with their field’s tolerance for acronyms, they called it AMITT (Adversarial Misinformation and Influence Tactics and Techniques). They’ve identified more than 60 techniques so far, mapping them onto the phases of an attack. Technique 49 is flooding, using bots or trolls to overtake a conversation by posting so much material it drowns out other ideas. Technique 18 is paid targeted ads. Technique 54 is amplification by Twitter bots. But the database is just getting started.