Belarus, Not Russia, Is Behind Anti-NATO Information Ops Mandiant Says
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Researchers at Mandiant say that a group of hackers behind anti-NATO information operations known as Ghostwriter are, in fact, Belarusian, and not, as cybersecurity researchers concluded, Russian.
Since last year's election, 16 of 19 Ghostwriter disinformation operations focused on narratives that disparage the Lithuanian and Polish governments, neighbors of Belarus. Two focused negatively on NATO, and one criticized the EU. (Lily Hay Newman / Wired)
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Facebook researchers said that hackers from Pakistan used Facebook to target people in Afghanistan with connections to the previous government during the Taliban's takeover.
Facebook said the group, known as SideCopy, shared links to websites hosting malware that could surveil people's devices. Targets included people connected to the government, military, and law enforcement in Kabul. Facebook took down SideCopy from…
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