Events

Apps blocked in Turkey following attack on Turkish aerospace agency HQ in Ankara: X, YouTube, Instagram, Telegram, TikTok, Facebook. The apps are not fully blocked, but authorities are implementing bandwidth throttling of up to 90%, which effectively prevents their use. Turkey’s Information and Communication Authority (BTK) is authorised to impose bandwidth throttling on social media platforms for up to 10 hours in urgent situations, such as "terror" attacks or natural disasters. For longer throttling periods, a court order is required

The Telegram account "Middle East Spectator" claims: We are open source news archives. We thought the documents were running on Telegram. We do not know the identity of the leaker and reject attempts by the American and Israeli media to intimidate our reporters"

CNN report: An investigation has been opened in the US following the leak of classified intelligence documents from the Pentagon regarding Israel's preparations for a response in Iran. The documents were published on a Telegram account called "Middle East Spectator" and, among other things, contain an alleged description of Air Force exercises

North Korean hackers use newly discovered Linux malware to raid ATMs

The websites of the Russia Ministry of Internal Affairs have stopped working Today, from about 4 p.m., the websites of the Ministry of Internal Affairs are unavailable.

Sri Lanka arrests over 230 Chinese in cybercrime raids

All communication networks are cut off in Sennar State

Real-time network data show the growing impact of Hurricane Milton across Florida with connectivity in Sarasota down to 14% of ordinary levels; the incident is attributed to flash floods and downed lines leaving over two million without power and telecoms

Russian troops that used Discord to stream video from reconnaissance drones reportedly have issues after Russian Media watchdog Roskomnadzor issued an order to ban the platform

The Discord messenger has been blocked in Russia for violating legal requirements, Roskomnadzor reports.

Raids in six German states helped shut down a major darknet child porn site

Rossiya 1, Radio Mayak and other VGTRK services have been hacked, Gazeta.ru writes, citing a source. Online broadcasting and internal services are down, there is no Internet or telephony

In Moldova, Yandex, Zen and Rutube were blocked at the request of the security service, the country's largest ISP reported

Russian authorities had detained 96 people during raids against UAPS payments system and Cryptex cryptocurrency exchange

Britain has imposed sanctions against 16 members of the Russian-linked hacker group Evil Corp, the British Foreign Office said.

A Russian disinfo campaign disclosed by the FBI argued that Twitter/X, had become “the only mass platform that could currently be utilized” in the United States.". because it was the only one that didn't remove Russian created content

Residents tell Yemen Monitor of internet outage and slowdown in Sanaa and Houthi areas

Report: Lebanon prevents Iranian planes from entering its airspace - after Israel hacked into the airport systems in Beirut

US offering $10 million reward for info on Iranian cyber actors liked to IRGC election meddling efforts

The IDF says it has uncovered at least 17 fake social media profiles operated by the Hezbollah terror group in a plot to gather intelligence on the military. The profiles, uncovered by the IDF's Information Security Department, tried to trick soldiers into revealing sensitive information about their location in bases and troop locations, the military says.

TikTok has removed the accounts of propagandists Sputnik International, Sputnik Serbia, Sputnik Afrique, Sputnik Africa, Sputnik Brasil, Sputnik Mundo and Sputnik Indonesia. This happened amid accusations from the US that propagandists interfered in the elections, RT complains.

The National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine has banned the use of Telegram in state authorities, military formations, and critical infrastructure facilities

The relevant authorities are checking the veracity of the information about the cyberattack by Russian hackers on the database of the office of the Prime Minister of Armenia

Microsoft has observed a notable shift in Russian influence operations tactics reflecting the changing U.S. political environment. Specifically, we have observed Russia pivot towards targeting the Harris-Walz campaign.

One of the explosions of communication devices of Hezbollah filmed

The mem @elonmusk posted apparently was created by someone named Sofiya, who worked for a Russian government agency sanctioned by the US and aimed at spreading propaganda in the West. @cxemu got access to a massive data leak and uncovered some interesting details

Meta bans RT and other Russian state media networks

Website of "President of Abkhaziya" was hacked

U.S. is imposing sanctions on 5 individuals and one entity associated with the Intellexa Consortium for their role in developing, operating, and distributing commercial spyware tech misused to target Americans, including U.S. officials, journalists, and policy experts

Confirmed: Metrics show a nation-scale disruption to internet service in Senegal with connectivity registering at 8% of ordinary levels; the incident is attributed to widespread power outages with Senelec reporting distribution failures after an incident at Hann Substation