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Malicious uses of social media bots will rise

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INT

In particular, bots are used to increase the speed and scale of misinformation campaigns and foreign propaganda. They make attribution of such activities to specific actors…

Advertisers up scrutiny of social media fake activity

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INTERNATIONAL

Advertising on social media.

Reforms will help clean up China's securities market

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CHINA

China's securities market has grown dramatically, but the rules that underpin its functioning have failed to keep pace and have been poorly enforced because regulators and courts…

Iran’s ebullient stock market is heading for a crash

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IRAN

This was despite a sharp economic contraction, high inflation and currency devaluation. The government has played a significant role in promoting equities growth, with state or…

AI deployment requires new security awareness

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INTERNATIONAL

While the number of cyberattacks on AI-based systems is thus far limited, research suggests a latent potential for malicious actors to exploit new types of vulnerabilities that…

Generative AI carries serious online risks

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INTERNATIONAL

These models are fed huge datasets of media content and trained to generate new content following a short thematic prompt. The most hyped -- and feared -- models include OpenAI’s…

UK focus on Russian Twitter activity will increase

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RUSSIA/UK

Studies of Russian Twitter activity during the Brexit vote.

Anti-disinformation approaches will proliferate

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INT

However, these efforts are neither universally applied nor commonly accepted. The proliferation of frameworks to combat disinformation demonstrates shared motivations among…

France HSBC move may signal more European enforcement

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EUROPE/US

The French case may mark a turning point, when European prosecutors start to follow through in pursuit of bank misdeeds, rather than allowing banks to escape liability by paying…

Quantum computing necessitates cybersecurity rethink

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INTERNATIONAL

Currently a theoretical threat, it could materialise in the future with wide-ranging implications. Quantum computers could be used to undermine cryptographic protection of…