In a bizzare incident, a young man from Bihar named Mithilesh Kumar caught attention recently as he walked into a Jamui police station, claiming to be an IPS officer. When questioned, Kumar claimed thar he paid ₹2 lakh for the rank. Later, the police called it fabricated and baseless. Despite this, Mithilesh became an instant […]
Moscow on Saturday denied Washington’s claims that Russia was behind a fake video showing a Haitian immigrant claiming to have voted multiple times. Three U.S. intelligence agencies on Friday said in a joint statement that “Russian influence actors” created the video as part of “Moscow’s broader effort to raise unfounded questions about the integrity of […]
Cook-Steve-foreign-policy-columnist4Steven A. Cook By Steven A. Cook, a columnist at Foreign Policy and the Eni Enrico Mattei senior fellow for Middle East and Africa studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Everywhere I have been in the past month—New York City, Tulsa, Santa Fe, Dallas, Seattle—someone asks me: “What are the differences between what a […]
Crowds of revelers lined the streets of Dublin, Ireland, this week for a Halloween parade, but there was one major problem: The city was not hosting a parade. Residents were duped by fake, AI-enhanced ads that reportedly originated on a Pakistan-based Facebook page called My Spirit Halloween, according to Stephen McDermott, an editor at The […]
Woolworths Group has rejected allegations it misled customers by inflating prices before discounting and advertising products as falsely reduced. The ACCC launched legal action against Woolworths and its competitor Coles in September over allegations both companies misled consumers with their pricing and discounts on hundreds of common products between February 2022 and May 2023. Coles […]
The Kremlin on Wednesday dismissed a recent report by the Financial Times claiming that Russian and Ukrainian officials are discussing a potential pause on strikes on each other’s energy infrastructure. “There’s a lot of fake news nowadays, and it has nothing to do with reality,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters when asked to comment […]
The 22-year-old law student suffered ‘devastating brain injuries’ after being struck by a car while training for last Sunday’s Dublin Marathon Source link
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YARDLEY, Pa. – Russian actors were behind a widely circulated video falsely depicting mail-in ballots for Donald Trump being destroyed in Pennsylvania, U.S. officials confirmed on Friday. The video had taken off on social media Thursday but was debunked within three hours by local election officials and law enforcement after members of the […]
North Korean hackers in the Lazarus group have infected PCs with “Manuscrypt” malware via a malicious website that uses the Chrome browser to promote a supposed “play and earn” NFT game, according to a report from Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky. The attacks used a zero-day Chrome exploit to conduct remote code execution (RCE), infecting the […]