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Russia and Venezuela have blocked encrypted messaging app Signal
09 Aug

Russia and Venezuela have blocked encrypted messaging app Signal

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Both Russia and Venezuela have blocked access to the encrypted messaging app Signal, .The Russian news service broke the news about the block on the Signal app in Russia. Russia’s telecommunications watchdog Roskomnadzor restricted the app due to “violations of the requirements of the Russian legislation whose fulfillment is necessary to prevent the use of the messenger for terrorist and extremist purposes,” according to the Russian report.The cybersecurity tracker on Friday that Russia has restricted access to Signal “on most internet providers.” NetBlocks also noted the app “remains usable with ‘censorship circumvention’ enabled” in Signal’s settings echoing to users who’ve…
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Veon Plans to Sell Up to 20% in IPO of Pakistan’s Top Mobile Operator
08 Aug

Veon Plans to Sell Up to 20% in IPO of Pakistan’s Top Mobile Operator

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Veon Ltd., a Dutch-domiciled telecommunications company, is preparing to sell as much as 20% in its Pakistani unit Jazz in an initial public offering, Chief Executive Officer Kaan Terzioglu said.“A 12-month horizon is when we will make really concrete decisions” about the IPO, Terzioglu said in an interview in Amsterdam. Pakistan’s pension funds, local and retail investors would be keen to have a stake in the country’s biggest mobile operator, he said. Veon earned $1.12 billion in revenue from Pakistan last year. Source link lol
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Russia-linked hackers cut heat to 600 Ukrainian apartment buildings in the dead of winter, researchers say
23 Jul

Russia-linked hackers cut heat to 600 Ukrainian apartment buildings in the dead of winter, researchers say

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Cybersecurity company Dragos has flagged malware that can attack industrial control systems (ICS), tricking them into malicious behavior like turning off the heat and hot water in the middle of winter. TechCrunch reports that’s precisely what the malware, dubbed FrostyGoop, did this January in Lviv, Ukraine, when residents in over 600 apartment buildings lost heat for two days amid freezing temperatures.Dragos says FrostyGoop is only the ninth known malware designed to target industrial controllers. It’s also the first to specifically set its sights on Modbus, a widely deployed communications protocol invented in 1979. Modbus is frequently used in industrial environments…
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The Architect of Russia’s Google Is Back
16 Jul

The Architect of Russia’s Google Is Back

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The billionaire Arkady Volozh, known as the architect of “Russia’s Google,” valued at $30 billion at its peak, has long had an apolitical public persona. “I don’t have friction with the state,” Volozh told WIRED in 2017. “Just like I don't have friction with the weather. What happens if it’s raining? I need to build a service to avoid the rain.”Still, Volozh couldn’t avoid the rain. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, he was targeted by EU sanctions personally and forced to step down from Yandex, the internet giant he built with the late Ilya Segalovich. Today the tech billionaire is…
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US officials announce the takedown of an AI-powered Russian bot farm
10 Jul

US officials announce the takedown of an AI-powered Russian bot farm

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US officials and their allies have identified and taken down an artificial intelligence-powered Russian bot farm comprised of almost 1,000 accounts, which spread disinformation and pro-Russian sentiments on X. The Justice Department has revealed the the scheme that was made possible by software was created by a digital media department within RT, a Russian state-controlled media outlet. Its development was apparently led by RT's deputy editor-in-chief back in 2022 and was approved and funded by an officer at Russia's Federal Security Service, the main successor of the KGB.In a cybersecurity advisory issued by the FBI, intelligence officers from the Netherlands…
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How Disinformation From a Russian AI Spam Farm Ended up on Top of Google Search Results
09 Jul

How Disinformation From a Russian AI Spam Farm Ended up on Top of Google Search Results

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In the space of 24 hours, a piece of Russian disinformation about Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky’s wife buying a Bugatti car with American aid money traveled at warp speed across the internet. Though it originated from an unknown French website, it quickly became a trending topic on X and the top result on Google.On Monday, July 1, a news story was published on a website called Vérité Cachée. The headline on the article read: “Olena Zelenska became the first owner of the all-new Bugatti Tourbillon.” The article claimed that during a trip to Paris with her husband in June, the…
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Whistleblower claims Amazon violated UK sanctions by selling facial recognition tech to Russia
07 Jun

Whistleblower claims Amazon violated UK sanctions by selling facial recognition tech to Russia

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An ex-employee has accused Amazon of breaching UK sanctions by selling facial recognition technology to Moscow following its invasion of Ukraine, The Financial Times reported.Charles Forrest alleged that he was unfairly dismissed in 2023 after accusing Amazon of wrongdoing on a number of issues between November 2022 and May 2023, according to the article. The allegations were presented to a London employment tribunal as part of a hearing this week.Forrest said that Amazon closed a deal with Russian firm VisionLabs to provide access to its Rekognition facial recognition technology. It did that "through what appears to be a shell company…
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Foreign Influence Campaigns Don’t Know How to Use AI Yet Either
30 May

Foreign Influence Campaigns Don’t Know How to Use AI Yet Either

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Today, OpenAI released its first threat report, detailing how actors from Russia, Iran, China, and Israel have attempted to use its technology for foreign influence operations across the globe. The report named five different networks that OpenAI identified and shut down between 2023 and 2024. In the report, OpenAI reveals that established networks like Russia’s Doppleganger and China’s Spamoflauge are experimenting with how to use generative AI to automate their operations. They're also not very good at it.And while it’s a modest relief that these actors haven’t mastered generative AI to become unstoppable forces for disinformation, it’s clear that they’re…
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