

midterm election in November, but they said they're particularly alert to other campaigns that would engage in "perception hacking" to try to overstate their influence as a way to erode trust in the democratic process. "That is a ploy which is aimed at situations where people are aware but don’t quite grasp the details." "It’s the operation that drops the ice cube and tries to convince people that there’s an iceberg there," Ben Nimmo, Meta's global threat intelligence lead, told Protocol.

In addition to Cyber Front Z, Meta's quarterly report detailed efforts to take more action against what the company called "emerging harms networks," including efforts to harass targets through mass reporting of their content in Indonesia and a brigading network of cyber-bullies in India. The news sent Coinbase shares rallying more than 15% as a partnership with a major Wall Street institution eased investor worries about heightened regulatory scrutiny of the crypto marketplace. NEXTCLOUD EU EUROPEAN MICROSOFT ONEDRIVE TEAMS SOFTWAREĬoinbase will provide clients of BlackRock’s Aladdin software “direct access to crypto, starting with bitcoin,” Coinbase executives Brett Tejpaul and Greg Tusar said in a blog post. The marketplace will offer access to crypto assets through Coinbase Prime, which will provide “crypto trading, custody, prime brokerage, and reporting capabilities to Aladdin’s Institutional client base who are also clients of Coinbase,” the executives said. It’s a big win for Coinbase at a time when the crypto powerhouse is facing growing pressure from the SEC. The regulator recently charged a former Coinbase product manager with insider trading arguing that many of the assets offered on the platform should be regulated as securities.

