InfoSec News Nuggets 02/16/2023

Revealed: the hacking and disinformation team meddling in elections  A team of Israeli contractors who claim to have manipulated more than 30 elections around the world using hacking, sabotage and automated disinformation on social media has been exposed in a new investigation. The unit is run by Tal Hanan, a 50-year-old former Israeli special forces operative who now works privately using the pseudonym “Jorge”, and appears to have been working under the radar in elections in various…
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InfoSec News Nuggets 02/13/2023

Maine gov’t says state systems were not breached despite hacking group’s claims  Maine government officials denied that a notorious hacking group breached their systems after the gang boasted of stealing information this week. The GhostSec hacking group posted to Telegram on Thursday claiming that they stole 40 GB of data from Maine’s government websites. The group provided a zip file of the data they stole. But Sharon Huntley, director of communications for Maine’s Department of Administrative and Financial Services,…
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