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Senior Analyst @Graphika. I have opinions of my own.

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Have AI advancements made detecting bots online harder? πŸ‘€

#Graphika Intelligence Specialist Angie Waller tackled that during our session Ask an Expert: Bot or Not? Understanding Automated Attacks and When They Matter.

Watch the replay today to access the full webinar: graphika.com/reports/bot-...

09.12.2025 20:43 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Are you in TikTok’s cat niche? What 121,000 videos reveal We re-created TikTok’s algorithm based on 1,100 users’ feeds. Explore which topics are in your feed and see what the algorithm is least likely to show you.
10.12.2025 18:12 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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AI slop is everywhere now - including embedded inside influence campaigns.

So what can this tell us about adversarial actors online?

Graphika analysts recently tackled that topic at @cyberwarcon.bsky.social and in our new report Cheap Tricks, High Impact: graphika.com/reports/chea...

02.12.2025 19:04 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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#Graphika team members had an amazing experience connecting with everyone and presenting their talks this week on AI-powered influence operations and Pro-Iran narratives at @cyberwarcon.bsky.social.

We're already looking forward to next year!
#cyberwarcon #cybersecurity #cyberthreatintelligence

21.11.2025 15:42 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Cheap Tricks AI tools have accelerated the speed and scale of influence operations, but their content remains low-quality and has limited organic impact.

Graphika’s new report, Cheap Tricks, is out today!

Graphika analysts examined how AI slop is powering influence campaigns online.

To read the key findings and access the full report: graphika.com/reports/chea...

19.11.2025 21:36 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Graphika In The News: Talking Romance Scams With Cyber From The Frontlines Graphika Senior Investigator LΓ©a Ronzaud discussed romance scams and online fraud with the Cyber from the Frontlines podcast, including highlights from Graphika's report Looking For Love On All The Wr...

Our Senior Investigator LΓ©a Ronzaud recently spoke with Cyber from the Frontlines podcast about romance scams, the tactics that scammers use, and the devastation that they wreak financially and emotionally.

30.09.2025 21:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Graphika Insight: Veterans & seniors are being targeted by scam ads claiming debt relief, home services, or β€œsenior relief bills.”

Key points:
Fake VA benefits
AI-generated videos & audio
Paid promotion with little organic activity

Access the full insight: buff.ly/8d3pWkz

02.10.2025 13:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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False alarm, real scam: how scammers are stealing older adults’ life savings Reports to the FTC show a growing wave of scams aimed squarely at retirees’ life savings. These scammers pretend to be from known and trusted government agencies and businesses.
08.08.2025 21:39 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Imposter scams cost older adults $700 million in 2024, FTC finds: Some victims are β€˜clearing out' their 401(k)s Americans age 60 and older are increasingly reporting being victims of imposter scams, sometimes losing their life savings.
08.08.2025 21:37 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜This is coming for everyone’: A new kind of AI bot takes over the web As consumers switch from Google search to ChatGPT, a new kind of bot is scraping data for AI chatbots.
12.06.2025 16:18 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Telegram, the FSB, and the Man in the Middle The technical infrastructure that underpins Telegram is controlled by a man whose companies have collaborated with Russian intelligence services.
10.06.2025 10:52 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I joined my friend Josh yesterday for my second Distinguished Gentleman's Ride to raise funds and awareness for men's mental health and prostate cancer research. Please consider supporting either of our fundraiser pages: gfolk.me/DinaSadek or gfolk.me/JoshMinerDC. Thank you! #MensHealth

19.05.2025 13:36 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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FBI has opened 250 investigations tied to violent online network '764' that preys on teens, top official says The FBI has more than 250 investigations underway into the network of violent predators known as "764," FBI Assistant Director David Scott says in an exclusive interview.
07.05.2025 14:12 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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North Korean operatives have infiltrated hundreds of Fortune 500 companies Security leaders at Mandiant and Google Cloud say nearly every major company has hired or received applications from North Korean nationals working on behalf of the country’s regime.
05.05.2025 11:28 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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How we identified a North Korean hacker who tried to get a job at Kraken Cybersecurity isn’t just a priority for Kraken, it’s part of our origin story and embedded into our DNA.
05.05.2025 11:23 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Leaders of 764 Arrested and Charged for Operating Global Child Exploitation Enterprise Leonidas Varagiannis, also known as β€œWar,” 21, a citizen of the United States residing in Thessaloniki, Greece, and Prasan Nepal, also known as β€œTrippy,” 20, of North Carolina, were arrested and charg...

β€œThe affidavit alleges that the group targeted vulnerable children online, coercing them into producing degrading and explicit content under threat and manipulation.”

02.05.2025 12:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A series of fake news clips have gone viral on X, TikTok and YouTube which falsely claim British comedian Jim Davidson has leaked CCTV footage of Keir Starmer and Labour donor Lord Alli "in a compromising position".

The videos appear to be part of a targeted fake news campaign.

23.04.2025 13:58 πŸ‘ 98 πŸ” 34 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 5
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Chart a course with PwC’s Cyber Threats 2024: A Year in Retrospect Dive into PwC’s Cyber Threats 2024: A Year in Retrospect for knowledge to help you navigate the shifting tides of cyber threats in 2025 and beyond.
24.04.2025 12:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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When Hoaxes Make the Headlines: The Spread of β€˜National Rape Day’ on TikTok In April 2024, TikTok's failure to address the spread of the debunked β€˜National Rape Day’ hoax highlighted gaps in its content moderation.

The viral assault hoax β€œNational Rape Day” resurfaces every April 24. It isn’t a real β€œholiday” β€” but its harms are very real.

Read our report on how the hoax has been amplified by a mix of influencers, media outlets and politicians across at least four countries. www.isdglobal.org/isd-publicat...

24.04.2025 11:26 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Detecting and Countering Malicious Uses of Claude Detecting and Countering Malicious Uses of Claude
24.04.2025 11:22 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Via porn, gore and ultra-violence, extremist groups are sinking hooks online into the very young Counterterrorism agencies are grappling with a new generation of young people who are consuming ultraviolent content produced by extremist groups and their supporters.
14.04.2025 12:56 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Risks to children playing Roblox β€˜deeply disturbing’, say researchers Exclusive: Gaming platform accused of β€˜troubling disconnect between child-friendly appearance and reality’
14.04.2025 11:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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BBC Verify: Earthquake video proven fake gets millions of views BBC Verify: Earthquake video proven fake gets millions of views

An AI generated video of the aftermath of a deadly earthquake in Myanmar has gone viral alongside real footage of devastation.
Here’s how we know the fake video is not real
@paulybrown.bsky.social @shayan86.bsky.social @jcheetham.bsky.social;
@herdjemimah.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

31.03.2025 19:06 πŸ‘ 24 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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The "think" tool: Enabling Claude to stop and think A blog post for developers, describing a new method for complex tool-use situations
23.03.2025 13:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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3rd EEAS Report on Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference Threats The 3rd EEAS Report on Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI) Threats maps out the digital infrastructure deployed by foreign actors, mainly by Russia, but also by China, to manipula...

Third EEAS Report on Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference Threats

19.03.2025 13:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Adaptation and Innovation: The Civic Space Response to AI-Infused Elections With case studies also by:Β Laura Zommer and Kian Vesteinsson Introduction AI avatars delivered independent news about Venezuela’s contested election, allowing journalists to protect their identity and...

New research alert!🚨 Pleased to share a new @cendemtech.bsky.social report on information resilience in the context of AI and elections.

For me it answers the question of whether AI matters for elections with a clear β€œyes” - though not always in the way you’d expect🧡 cdt.org/insights/ada...

13.03.2025 15:06 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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CPJ leads joint letter to Egyptian president urging release of writer Alaa Abdelfattah - Committee to Protect Journalists In a joint letter led by the Committee to Protect Journalists, 50 prominent human rights leaders, Nobel Prize laureates, writers, and public figures have called on Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-S...
10.03.2025 13:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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How to consume information in times of conflict Unverified information can exacerbate conflicts. Recognizing and scrutinizing it should become reflexive for all of us
10.03.2025 13:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Disrupting malicious uses of AI Ensuring AI benefits humanity by advancing democratic AI, preventing misuse, and protecting against authoritarian threats.
21.02.2025 22:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Signals of Trouble: Multiple Russia-Aligned Threat Actors Actively Targeting Signal Messenger | Google Cloud Blog Russia state-aligned threat actors target Signal Messenger accounts used by individuals of interest to Russia's intelligence services.

Today, Google Threat Intelligence is alerting the community to increasing efforts from several Russia state-aligned threat actors (GRU, FSB, etc.) to compromise Signal Messenger accounts.

cloud.google.com/blog/topics/...

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