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Massive Networks of Fake Accounts Found On Twitter

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Massive collections of fake accounts are lying dormant on Twitter, suggests research. The largest network ties together more than 350,000 accounts and further work suggests others may be even bigger. UK researchers accidentally uncovered the lurking networks while probing Twitter to see how people use it. Some of the accounts have been used to fake … Read more

Two Major Russian Banks Say Hit By Cyber Attacks

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Two of Russia’s largest banks, Sberbank (SBER. MM) and Alfa Bank, say they have been hit by cyber attacks in recent days. Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab said the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks represented the first major wave of such attacks on Russian banks this year and that at least five of the country’s … Read more