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A video purporting to be a BBC news report about Ukrainian businessmen making donations to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is fake.

It has been shared on X (formerly Twitter), and also on Facebook. The video claims that “three of Ukraine’s richest businessmen have donated $8m to Donald Trump’s election campaign”. 

Text within the video, which features a BBC watermark, also claims the report has been produced with investigative journalism organisation Bellingcat. 

The video claims the donations occurred after the attempted assassination of the Republican presidential candidate on 13 July and says they were made through “cryptocurrency transactions” to Mr Trump’s “cryptocurrency wallet”. 

However, both the BBC and Bellingcat have denied that…

Shady websites calling for a boycott of Qatar, a New York City billboard targeting the Gulf state’s rulers, and a Vietnamese outfit floating hundreds of slander-ridden Facebook ads — all elements of a sprawling influence operation vilifying the country as it mediates between Israel and Hamas.

The murky operation, which began late last year and spans multiple countries, is the largest ever to target the wealthy emirate, disinformation researchers say, as the nine-month war between Israel and the Palestinian militant group rages on.

The campaigns, many using Islamophobic and anti-immigrant tropes, involve an anti-Qatar ad that featured at a U.S. gathering of political conservatives attended by…

What just happened? A popular YouTuber has launched a campaign called “Stop Killing Games” to apply pressure on publishers to stop making their titles unplayable. The move comes days after Ubisoft shut down the servers of popular racer The Crew, rendering it inoperable for gamers everywhere.

The campaign was launched by YouTuber Ross Scott of Accursed Farms in an effort to highlight how developers and publishers are intentionally designing games to become unplayable as soon as support ends. According to the Stop Killing Games website, the practice lies in a legal gray area, largely because most governments do not have clear laws regarding this issue.

The campaign’s goal is to convince authorities to examine the legality of this practice and, hopefully, pass legislation to end as it…

WordPress websites are under attack! FakeUpdates malware exploits vulnerabilities and injects malicious code. LockBit3 dominates the world of ransomware. Web server flaws leave organizations exposed. Experts advocate strong security and zero tolerance for cyber threats.

As of March 2024, approximately 835 million websites are utilizing the WordPress Content Management System (CMS). This vast presence makes WordPress an extremely lucrative target for cybercriminals.

To highlight the ongoing threats to WordPress, according to the February 2024 Global Threat Index released by Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., this week, researchers have uncovered a fresh wave of cyber threats including malware attacks aimed at WordPress websites.

The campaign, identified as