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GRU Operators Leveraged Blogs, Social Media Accounts and Private Messaging to Reach Audiences Across Europe

GRU Operators Leveraged Blogs, Social Media Accounts and Private Messaging to Reach Audiences Across Europe

This report examines several campaigns manned by Russian military intelligence operators using fake accounts to influence audiences around Russia’s borders, with a primary focus on Ukraine. The accounts were initially identified and taken down by Facebook on February 12, 2020. While most of this activity occurred around 2016 and 2017, some of these accounts were still active in 2020 at the time…

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STOP AAPI HATE NATIONAL REPORT 3/19/20 – 2/28/21

STOP AAPI HATE NATIONAL REPORT 3/19/20 – 2/28/21

This report covers the 3,795 incidents received by the Stop AAPI Hate reporting center from March 19, 2020 to February 28, 2021. The number of hate incidents reported to our center represent only a fraction of the number of hate incidents that actually occur, but it does show how vulnerable Asian Americans are to discrimination, and the types of discrimination they face.​1 Types of…

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Warren Wyden DeSaulnie to Venntel re Mobile Phone Location Data

Warren Wyden DeSaulnie to Venntel re Mobile Phone Location Data

With Americans installing contact-tracing apps as part of the effort to limit the spread of COVID-19, it has become increasingly important to make sure that the American public has a full understanding of who is collecting their location data, how it may be provided to the government, and what the government is doing with…

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In Praise of Hawala By J. Orlin Grabbe

In Praise of Hawala By J. Orlin Grabbe

When I was teaching at Wharton, I remember one student who was amazed that he could “wire” his Treasury bill from a bank in Chicago to a bank in Manhattan. Of course there was no mystery to the process. Treasury bills only exist as accounting entries on the books of the Federal Reserve: there is no physical token or quality printed document involved. The bank in Chicago was the registered owner…

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Russia Threatens To Fine Social Media Giants For Not Deleting Protest-related Posts

Russia Threatens To Fine Social Media Giants For Not Deleting Protest-related Posts

Russia said that social media giants including TikTok, Facebook, Twitter and even YouTube “will be fined” for failing to delete the posts regarding protests. Russia on January 27 said that social media giants including TikTok, Facebook, Twitter and even YouTube “will be fined” for failing to delete the posts that motivated the youngsters to participate in the opposition protests. In a statement,…

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How the Kremlin Cracked Down on Online Promotion for The Protests

How the Kremlin Cracked Down on Online Promotion for The Protests

Russia’s media watchdog Roskomnadzor last week cautioned social media platforms against encouraging minors to join the protests. “[We] will prosecute Internet sites for involving adolescents in illegal activities,” the watchdog said, adding that failure to remove “banned information”—posts encouraging people to join the protests — could result in fines of up to 4 million rubles ($53,000).The…

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Turkish Islamists Call for the Islamization of America

Turkish Islamists Call for the Islamization of America

Across the world, Islamists longing for a caliphate increasingly look with admiration to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan – who is popularly described as the “true leader of Ummah [Muslim believers]” – and his AKP’s increasingly obvious agenda of reviving a modern version of the Ottoman Empire. In fact, on the heels of the recent Turkish regime decision to convert the historic Hagia Sophia…

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Syria thread - Erdoğan edition

Syria thread – Erdoğan edition

Erdogan has met Putin and ironed out the partition of northeastern Syria. He gets to keep everything he conquered and the rest stays with Assad. YPG retreats from a 30km strip along the border, leaving the bulk of Kurdish-populated areas. Russo-Turkish patrols guard the safe zone. The deal shows two things:By inviting Assad the SDF have completely relinquished their sovereignty. This was why they…

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Pixlr: Two Million User Data Leaked On The Dark Web

Pixlr: Two Million User Data Leaked On The Dark Web

Pixlr, the popular online photo editing website on the dark web, had suffered significant data exposure. The hacker had leaked the website’s data on a dark web forum that accounts for around 1.9 million. They have also leaked the other stolen data acquired from the other websites.  The massive data breach has been caused by a hacker who calls himself ShinyHunters. The breached data has been…

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Afghan forces expose Chinese intelligence network, arrest 10 spies with explosives, drugs

Afghan forces expose Chinese intelligence network, arrest 10 spies with explosives, drugs

Afghan forces have exposed the Chinese intelligence network operating in Afghanistan for at least six months, under which the Chinese spies maintained contacts with Haqqani network and Afghan Taliban.In mid-December, the National Directorate of Security (NDS) officials conducted a major operation in Kabul, which resulted in the detention of about 10 Chinese intelligence agents.In an opinion piece…

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The Rights of Animals in Islam

The Rights of Animals in Islam

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Australia Weighing ‘Extraordinary’ Powers to Identify, Disrupt Dark Web Cybercriminals

Australia Weighing ‘Extraordinary’ Powers to Identify, Disrupt Dark Web Cybercriminals

Legal experts urge caution as the government proposes new police powers for dark web takedowns, social media takeovers. Australian privacy, legal, and digital rights organisations have just weeks to comment on proposed federal legislation that would, among other things, let federal investigators take over suspects’ social media accounts as part of investigations into cybercriminal activity on the…

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The Military Would Not Participate in a Coup. Trump Can’t Understand Why....

The Military Would Not Participate in a Coup. Trump Can’t Understand Why….

Politicians from both parties have called on the armed forces to enforce election outcomes. The generals know better. TheBulwark The president of the United States considered using the military to overturn an election, according to press reports. Clearly, any president—any person—who would suggest such a thing doesn’t understand the whole point of American democratic politics. But more than…

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Chinese APT Group Linked to Ransomware Attacks

Chinese APT Group Linked to Ransomware Attacks

A well-known Chinese state-backed APT group is believed to have been responsible for multiple ransomware attacks against firms last year, according to new research. A report from Security Joes and Pro reveals how the vendors uncovered the links after investigating an incident in which ransomware encrypted “several core servers” at an unidentified victim organization. They found samples of…

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Fake Covid-19 Vaccines are Flooding the Dark Web as Slow Vaccine Rollout Frustrates

Fake Covid-19 Vaccines are Flooding the Dark Web as Slow Vaccine Rollout Frustrates

Scams include emails promising entry to supposedly secret lists for early vaccine access and robocallers impersonating government agencies. Message boards on the so-called dark web have added Covid-19 vaccines to more traditional illicit goods for sale. Covid-19 vaccine scams are on the rise, according to European and US government officials who are warning the public of fraudsters out for money…

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Think tank claims over half of 13L Indian soldiers under severe stress, deletes report later

Think tank claims over half of 13L Indian soldiers under severe stress, deletes report later

More than half of the over 13-lakh strong Indian Army personnel “seems to be under severe stress”, according to a study published by the tri-services think tank United Service Institution of India (USI). There have been over 1,100 cases of suicide among varous ranks since 2010. The study, done by a serving Colonel and published on the USI website last month was, however, removed…

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EU and UK Agreement for Exchanging and Protecting Classified Information

EU and UK Agreement for Exchanging and Protecting Classified Information

Article 9 For the purposes of this Agreement:(a) all classified information released to the Union under this Agreement shall be sent through:the Central Registry of the General Secretariat of the Council, if addressed to the European Council, the Council or the General Secretariat of the Council;the Secretariat‐General Registry of the European Commission, if addressed to the European…

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