Misinformation and cybersecurity incidents have become the top scourges of the modern digital era. Rarely does a day go by without significant news of a damaging misinformation threat, a ransomware attack, or another malicious cyber incident.
As both types of threats escalate and frequently appear simultaneously in threat actors’ campaigns, the lines between the two are getting fuzzy. At this year’s RSA Conference, information security experts appeared on a panel entitled “Misinformation Is the New Malware” to hammer out the distinctions.
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