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BRUSSELS: ByteDance-owned social media platform TikTok said on Wednesday it will ramp up its fight against fake news and covert i NFL uence operations in the run-up to European Parliament elections in June with a local language app in all 27 countries. Tiktok said the individual local language "election centres" build on work it first started in 2021, which accelerated last year when Greece, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia and Spain went to the polls. The app is designed to better inform Europeans about the electoral process. Governments and politicians around the world are concerned about the spread of misinformation and the use of AI-generated deepfakes to influence elections and especially the role of social media platforms. Some 30% of European Parliament lawmakers use TikTok, the company said. "Next month, we will launch a local language Election Centre in-app for each of the 27 individual EU member states to ensure people can easily separate fa...

WASHINGTON/ SAN FRANCISO: About a year ago, the US security firm Palo Alto Networks began to hear from a flurry of companies that had been hacked in ways that weren't the norm for cybercriminals. Native English-speaking hackers would call up a target company’s information Technology helpdesk posing as an employee, and seek login details by pretending to have lost theirs. They had all the employee information needed to sound convincing. And once they got access, they’d quickly find their way into the company's most sensitive repositories to steal that data for extortion. Ransomware attacks are not new, but this group was extraordinarily skilled at social engineering and bypassing multi-factor authentication, said Wendi Whitmore, senior vice president for the security firm Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 threat intelligence team, which has responded to several intrusions tied to the group. "They are much more sophisticated than many cybercriminal acto...