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Binance says North Korean hackers “used fake social media profiles and the lure of a potential job offer as part of a months-long scheme” that resulted in the theft of $6.3 billion in crypto last week. Researchers “have warned for years that North Korean hackers pose as venture capitalists, investors, and recruiters,” even fake IT workers.
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For the past three years, Marc Owen Jones and Sohan Dsouza have been tracking a covert influence campaign that has flooded social media platforms with anti-Muslim, anti-migrant and anti-Qatar propaganda. Here’s Jones discussing the research, the campaign, and its links to Israel.
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OCCRP published an interesting article about how the Investigative Reporting Lab in North Macedonia is reimagining journalism by turning investigative reporting into fictional film. The team’s first film, The Bench, just won an award and a special jury mention at an annual film festival in North Macedonia.