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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google Takes Down Influence Campaigns Tied to China, Indonesia, and Russia  The Hacker News Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google Releases Urgent Chrome Update to Fix Actively Exploited Zero-Day Vulnerability  The Hacker News Source link

Google’s logo on a building on the company’s Mountain View, Calif., campus in 2019. The company says it mistakenly sent a security engineer $250,000. Jeff Chiu/AP hide caption toggle caption … Source link

Yandex Taxi is however owned and operated by Russia’s largest IT corporation Yandex. Yandex is the equivalent of the Russian Google. Europe has thus far sanctioned the company’s co-founder Arkady Volozh, because of accusations that Yandex is “de-ranking and removing content critical of the Kremlin, such as content related to Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine.” No one yet knows for sure who was behind the Yandex Taxi hack. However the Twitter page of Anonymous TV has taken… Source link

The war between Russia and Ukraine being fought on the battleground — and in cyberspace. Just ask Dyma Budorin, a Ukrainian web security entrepreneur turned cyber warrior currently based in Spain after leaving Kyiv just days before the Russian invasion began. “It’s an official cyberwar between Russia and Ukraine,” Budorin, co-founder and CEO of Hacken, a Ukrainian cybersecurity consulting firm, told Yahoo Finance. Budorin says almost his entire 70-member team relocated. They’re still handling… Source link

Almost a decade before the world finally realized how tedious April Fool’s Day pranks are, Google revealed a farcical 8-bit port of Google Maps for the iconic Nintendo Entertainment System. The prank was quickly forgotten, but not by one maker, who, nine years later, has made the NES version of Google Maps a reality. Although Google did provide an online demo at the time, a promised fully functional NES cartridge version of the mapping service was never meant to be (nor was the Game Boy… Source link

San Francisco (AFP) – Hackers involved in the high-profile hijacking of Twitter accounts earlier this week were young pals with no links to state or organized crime, The New York Times reported Friday. The attack, which Twitter and federal police are investigating, started with a playful message between hackers on the platform Discord, a chat service popular with gamers, according to the Times. The paper said it had interviewed four people who participated in the hacking, who shared logs and… Source link