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    <channel><title>Bitdefender Labs</title><description>Daily source of cyber-threat information. Established 2001.</description><link>https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/labs/</link><image><url>https://download.bitdefender.com/resources/images/favicon/favicon-32x32.png</url><title>Bitdefender Labs</title><link>https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/labs/</link></image><generator>Bitdefender Blog</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:25:17 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.bitdefender.com/nuxt/api/en-us/rss/labs/election-security/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><ttl>1800</ttl><item><title>Facebook executives ignored Ukraine’s warnings about Russian troll farms, investigation reveals</title><description><![CDATA[The weaponization of Facebook started long before the US elections in 2016, but only after that incident did the social network’s management actually take the matter seriously, writes the Washington Post, based on an external investigation.


Hateful speech and fake accounts formed part of Russian propaganda dating back to its conflicts with Ukraine, and were a key tactic in destabilizing the political environment in the country at the time. According to the investigation, the same strategy was ]]></description><link>https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/labs/facebook-executives-ignored-ukraines-warnings-about-russian-troll-farms-investigation-reveals</link><guid isPermaLink="false">66d5c3d2d0ec1aefc7d72240</guid><category><![CDATA[Election Security]]></category><dc:creator>Luana PASCU</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2018 10:04:38 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://blogapp.bitdefender.com/labs/content/images/wordpress/2018/10/fake-news.jpg" medium="image"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[The weaponization of Facebook started long before the US elections in 2016, but only after that incident did the social network’s management actually take the matter seriously, writes the Washington Post, based on an external investigation.


Hateful speech and fake accounts formed part of Russian propaganda dating back to its conflicts with Ukraine, and were a key tactic in destabilizing the political environment in the country at the time. According to the investigation, the same strategy was ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Bitdefender Finds Hackers Targeting High-Profile US Election Candidates Using Fake Domains with Fake Scandals</title><description><![CDATA[Here at Bitdefender Labs we are closely watching the US Midterm Elections in search of anomalies in malware, spam, misinformation and social network activity.


What is a ‘fake domain’?  Typically, a fake website.  Hackers register variations of valid website domains in order to hijack them and create lookalike websites with information meant to trick Internet users into visiting their wrong, and potentially malicious website. And during this election with its high Internet traffic rates, crimin]]></description><link>https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/labs/bitdefender-finds-hackers-targeting-high-profile-us-election-candidates-using-fake-domains-with-fake-scandals</link><guid isPermaLink="false">66d5c3d2d0ec1aefc7d7223f</guid><category><![CDATA[Election Security]]></category><dc:creator>Liviu ARSENE</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2018 23:16:44 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://blogapp.bitdefender.com/labs/content/images/wordpress/2018/10/shield-105499_1920.jpg" medium="image"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[Here at Bitdefender Labs we are closely watching the US Midterm Elections in search of anomalies in malware, spam, misinformation and social network activity.


What is a ‘fake domain’?  Typically, a fake website.  Hackers register variations of valid website domains in order to hijack them and create lookalike websites with information meant to trick Internet users into visiting their wrong, and potentially malicious website. And during this election with its high Internet traffic rates, crimin]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Bitdefender Detects Attempt to Spam-Trick Political Figures in Sextortion Scam</title><description><![CDATA[Here at Bitdefender we are keeping an eye on the upcoming Midterm Elections in the USA and are monitoring threat intelligence feeds in search of anomalies in malware, spam or social network activity.


This year’s mid-term elections are less than three weeks away, but hackers have already started capitalizing on unwary voters’ preferences in terms of passwords. Our sensors picked up a spam wave targeting republicans whose passwords have leaked in data breaches. A typical message shown below:



]]></description><link>https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/labs/politics-themed-spam-spikes-weeks-ahead-of-elections</link><guid isPermaLink="false">66d5c3d2d0ec1aefc7d7223c</guid><category><![CDATA[Election Security]]></category><dc:creator>Bogdan Botezatu</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2018 15:55:48 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://blogapp.bitdefender.com/labs/content/images/wordpress/2018/10/mail-2237468.png" medium="image"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[Here at Bitdefender we are keeping an eye on the upcoming Midterm Elections in the USA and are monitoring threat intelligence feeds in search of anomalies in malware, spam or social network activity.


This year’s mid-term elections are less than three weeks away, but hackers have already started capitalizing on unwary voters’ preferences in terms of passwords. Our sensors picked up a spam wave targeting republicans whose passwords have leaked in data breaches. A typical message shown below:



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