The US and China have signed off on a deal to sell TikTok’s US business to a consortium of mostly US investors led by Oracle and Silver Lake, capping off a yearslong battle between the social media app and the two superpowers.
4 day agoInternet monitoring group NetBlocks said Iran has been largely cut off from the global internet for two weeks, after authorities imposed sweeping restrictions during nationwide protests
4 day agoA major internet disruption has been registered in Indonesia with high impact to leading providers IndiHome and Telkomsel, corroborating user reports of difficulty getting online
Internet services are weak and intermittent in most Syrian governorates, and particularly in Aleppo and Damascus.
Iran’s deputy interior minister Ali Akbar Pourjamshidian says it is not yet clear when internet access will be restored, nearly two weeks after authorities shut it down to quell nationwide protests
4 day agoInternet blackout has been reported in Kobane
1 week agoX(formerly Twitter) is down for the users across the world
A senior U.S. military cyber operator responsible for overseeing efforts against Russia was dismissed from duty last week by the head of U.S. Cyber Command’s elite digital warfighting unit
Mobile phones in Iran can make calls abroad for the first time in days: APTrump announced that countries doing business with Iran will face 25% tariffs from the United States. Trump announced they would be “effective immediately.”
Executive Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy of the European Commission: X now has to fix its AI tool in the EU - and they have to do it quickly. If not, we will not hesitate to put the DSA to its full use to protect EU citizens
1 week agoAttempt to spread panic: Iranian SMS campaign: In recent hours, many Israelis have been receiving text messages in English threatening a "midnight missile attack"
In a joint operation coordinated by Turkish National Intelligence Organization (MIT) with the Cyber Security Authority (SGB), Gendarmerie (JGK), and MASAK, a cyber espionage network targeting public databases and citizens’ personal data was dismantled. Simultaneous raids in Istanbul and Karabük led to the detention of four suspects. Encrypted digital evidence was decrypted, while MASAK traced illegal proceeds concealed through crypto transfers and overseas platforms.
In Moldova, an attempt to transfer $107 million in cryptocurrencies from the Kremlin to finance pro-Russian parties and destabilize them was just foiled
1 month agoPolice in Warsaw detained three Ukrainians with hacking equipment in their car; the devices found could have been used to break into state systems. The detainees were charged and taken into custody.
Global websites back online as Cloudflare issues fix for dashboard issue
Cloudflare says that it is investigating issues with its Dashboard and related Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)
1 month agoOpenAI chief executive Sam Altman has declared a 'code red' over the need to improve ChatGPT, as rivals Google and Anthropic narrow its early lead in the race to develop artificial intelligence
1 month agoIssues with Whatsapp in Russia
South Korean authorities are investigating a data leak at online retailer Coupang Inc. that exposed about 33.7 million accounts in what could be the country's widest hack
2 month agoCloudflare Global Network experiencing issues, a lot of web services are down
Anonymous: Anonymous has hacked all Kremlin servers. Anonymous is applying its own digital sanctions on Russia. We demand they surrender and fully leave all Ukrainian territory
3 month agoAccess to VKontakte (VK Com) has been blocked in Belarus: Based on a request from the State Security Committee, access to the information resource has been restricted.
UK: „The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is investigating claims Russian hackers stole hundreds of sensitive military documents and published them on the dark web.“
3 month agoAWS is down. Perplexity, Snapchat, Fortnite, Airtable, Canva, Amazon, Slack. Dozens of the services of the internet are affected
The Rada supported the bill on the creation of the Cyber Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It concerns the formation of a cyber reserve, cyber defense functions, and subordination to the Commander-in-Chief
3 month agoAfghanistan is now in the midst of a total internet blackout as Taliban authorities move to implement morality measures, with multiple networks disconnected through the morning in a stepwise manner; telephone services are currently also impacted
911 lines down across Mississippi statewide - WAPT
Microsoft announced it is blocking Israel’s access to technology which allowed the mass surveillance of Palestinian civilians, following an investigation wrote by activists. The first time that a major US tech company sanctions the Israeli military for violating Palestinian rights
4 month agoHackers of Ukrainian military intelligence got 100TB of documents from servers of occupational authorities in Crimea
The Secret Service seized over 100,000 SIM cards and 300 servers near the UN in New York that could shut down cell networks or conduct surveillance. nnThe network, found after threats to US officials, might be linked to foreign espionage or criminal groups. It was capable of sending 30M texts per minute and possibly disrupting emergency services. The investigation is ongoing, with potential ties to at least one foreign nation and expectations of finding similar setups elsewhere. Source: NYT
