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The era of fake news: How to combat the fake news trojan
23/08/2017
The Wdfload Trojan must be eliminated to prevent the flood of fake news from spreading online.
Here’s some real news about Fake News: Hackers could ride the wave of phony news stories to rip off unsuspecting victims of millions of dollars. Malware called Wdfload Trojan, the heart of an annoying adware program called Searchmaster, is capable of inserting fake search results onto legitimate web search pages – and it can also be used to display in-text ads, or even turn random words on a web page into hyperlinks. On a product search page, Wdfload is used to display fake ads; could it be used to display fake stories on a news result page – stories that could be used to rip off readers for huge amounts of money?
And if a fake Wdfload news story is accompanied by fake AI-based audio or video clips – in which new artificial intelligence technology-based tools are able to “graft” audio onto the lip movements of a speaker in a realistic manner, completely changing what was really said – you have a one-two punch that makes the fake news look very, very real.
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