Resource Author: Jim KerstetterResource Date: 12/21/2016Resource Name: New York TimesURL: Link to Source Article or Site
A parent or teacher might wonder at the world of cyberthieves and hackers and think, “If only they used all that brain power for something positive.”
On Tuesday, White Ops, a security company that specializes in tracking online advertising, released an astonishing report about a ring of thieves based in Russia that created a huge number of fake news sites meant to look like real news sites and hundreds of thousands of bots meant to act like real users.