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Slovak PM accuses Ukraine — without any evidence — of involvement in alleged “massive cyberattack”
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Oleh Pavliuk and Yevhen Kizilov report: Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has said that Slovakia’s national insurance company has suffered a “massive cyberattack” and claimed, without any evidence, that Ukraine was involved. Source: European Pravda with reference to Dennik N Details: At an emergency press conference on Friday, 24 January, Fico said the cyberattack had started at noon…
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In a landmark 300 page report released on Thursday, Amnesty International has accused Israeli authorities of committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. The report outlines three specific acts that allegedly violate the Genocide Convention, including the killing of Palestinians, causing serious bodily or mental harm, and deliberately inflicting conditions intended to bring about their physical destruction.
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A woman cries over a two-year-old child killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza Thursday – Copyright AFP Omar AL-QATTAA
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The Donetsk Regional Prosecutor’s Office on Friday accused Russian soldiers of executing five Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) near the village of Vuhledar in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.
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Palestinians displaced from shelters in Beit Hanoun cross the main Salaheddine road into Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip following Israeli army evacuation orders – Copyright AFP Omar AL-QATTAA
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Pro-Russia hacker groups have ramped up attacks on South Korean organizations following Seoul’s decision to send observers to Ukraine after North Korean troops joined Russian forces on the frontlines.
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A new ransomware dubbed GoZone is being leveraged by attackers that don’t seem to be very greedy: they are asking the victims to pay just $1,000 in Bitcoin if they want their files decrypted.
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Georgia’s ruling party declared victory in a result denounced by the opposition as fraudulent – Copyright KCNA VIA KNS/AFP/File STR
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in brief Senate intelligence committee chair Mark Warner (D-VA) is demanding to know why, in the wake of the bust-up of a massive online Russian disinformation operation, the names of six US-based domain registrars seem to keep popping up as, at best, negligent facilitators of election meddling.
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Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey launched an investigation into Google on Thursday, alleging that the search engine censors conservative speech during the presidential election period.
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Ukrainian Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin has accused Russia of systematically torturing prisoners of war (POWs), with up to 90 percent of returned Ukrainian soldiers reporting abuse during their detention in Russian prisons.
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Organizations using WordPress plug-in Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) are in the middle of an ugly and very public dispute between WP Engine (WPE), the maker of the plug-in, and Matt Mullenweg, the founder of the open source content management system.
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China’s National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center (CVERC) has doubled down on claims that the threat actor known as the Volt Typhoon is a fabrication of the U.S. and its allies.
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The UK on Wednesday accused Russia of violating international humanitarian law in its ongoing war against Ukraine, citing UN findings of war crimes including rape, sexual violence, and torture, as well as repeated large-scale attacks on Ukraine’s electricity infrastructure.
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South Korean Foreign Minister, Tae-yul Cho accused Russia of engaging in illegal arms trading with North Korea on Saturday during the 79th session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, reiterating that North Korea continues to pose a threat to peace on the Korean peninsula with its ongoing development of nuclear weapons.
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Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report on Thursday detailing incidents of civilian atrocities in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) amid ongoing military confrontations involving Rwandan forces and the M23 rebel group. As these forces move closer to the town of Sake, local residents and more than half a million displaced individuals…
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Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Geo Focus: Asia