An Inside Look into How Reddit Fights Cyber Threats

How does Reddit handle malicious or suspicious coordinated activity on
their platform? Our host Luke McNamara asked Aylea Baldwin, Threat
Intelligence Lead at Reddit, to answer that question and more during
this episode of Eye on Security.

During the discussion Aylea shared a few ways Reddit is unique
compared to other social media networks—its tolerance for varying
levels of behavior on different communities, the lack of user data
collection, and the way posts are amplified through voting. The voting
feature is unique to Reddit and Luke was curious to know how threat
actors leverage it as part of their influence campaigns. As it turns
out, the answer to that question isn’t so simple since foreign actors
have to get buy-in from people to up-vote their posts.

We ended our conversation with Aylea’s thoughts on the future of
disinformation and deep fake technology, which is a concern in the
security and many other industries, and something that can have a huge
influence on sites such as Reddit.