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UAE announces social media ban for under-15s: official news agency

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has announced a social media ban for under-16s

Cyber campaigns targeting the Iranian banking system disrupt a large part of banking services in Iran.

The U.S. government ordered Anthropic to block all foreign nationals from using its advanced AI models Mythos 5 and Fable 5, citing national security concerns. Anthropic said it had to disable access immediately, affecting foreign employees too, and called it a misunderstanding. Source: NYT

Sanktpēterburgas iedzīvotāji sūdzējušies par interneta pārtraukumiem. Vietējie ziņo, ka dažkārt nedarbojas mobilais internets. Lietotāji nevar atvērt lietotnes un ziņojumapmaiņas lietotnes.

US Treasury Secretary: Washington seized $1 billion in Iranian cryptocurrency assets

GitHub has been compromised by TeamPCP. GitHub has confirmed the internal breach. A poisoned VS Code extension on an employee device exfiltrated ~3,800 internal repositories. TeamPCP is already selling the data on a cybercrime forum

Sanktpēterburgā, tāpat kā Maskavā, mobilā interneta nebūs līdz 9. maijam.

Operatori brīdinājuši maskaviešus par mobilā interneta ierobežojumiem no 5. līdz 9. maijam.

Maskava pirms 9. maija ierobežos visus mobilos sakarus, ziņo BBC.

Downloads of VPNs have soared by 1,300% in Russia as citizens try en masse to circumvent government blocks on popular apps like Telegram. As a Russian commentator warns, this is likely to lead to the government criminalising VPN use in the near future

British and Norwegian militaries led an operation to deter Russian submarines suspected of malign activity in the north Atlantic

A hacker using the alias “FlamingChina” claims to have breached China’s National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin, stealing over 10PB of data spanning aerospace, military research, bioinformatics and fusion simulations, and is offering access for sale in cryptocurrency — CNN

The data from the hack at the Chinese super computer center included missile schematics and fusion simulations. If, as claimed, the hacker had access to this information for months, it shows massive security issues. Along with the recent purges and weapons failures, this hack shows serious problems in China's military industrial complex. If this is real, it could be one of the largest data breaches in China’s history. A hacker group claims it extracted over 10 petabytes of data from a state-run supercomputing facility, widely believed by experts to be the National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin.

Russian GRU spying operation exposed in Finnish homes.The Finnish Security Intelligence Service (SUPO) and Traficom's Cyber ​​Security Center participated in an international operation led by the FBI to disrupt the cyber espionage operations of the Russian military intelligence service GRU

Media reports indicate that the widespread outage was caused by blocking IP addresses used in the banking infrastructure.

FBI officials recently alerted Congress to Chinese cyber hack classified as “major incident,” - FOX

The @AWS region in Bahrain appears to be offline after being damaged again in another Iranian strike. Traffic to me-south-1 disappeared around 01:00 UTC on April 1, with connection failures increasing significantly

Financial Times, citing sources: Amazon's cloud computing center in Bahrain was damaged in an Iranian attack

North Korea-linked hackers compromised Axios, a widely used open-source JavaScript library that handles API requests between apps, websites and servers, inserting malicious code into an update to harvest credentials and potentially access data across millions of systems in a supply chain attack, Google says

Fires reported in Bahrain as smoke rises over Hamala. Images circulating online show thick black smoke rising over western Bahrain, with multiple plumes visible across the Hamala area. Bahrain’s interior ministry says it is working to extinguish a fire at a business facility following what they described as an Iranian attack. Footage suggests an active blaze in a built-up area, though the exact site remains unclear

Users of the Russian national messenger Max are reporting an outage: messages are not being sent or received.

Pēc Roskomnadzor pieprasījuma masveida VPN pakalpojumu tīrīšana no Krievijas lietotņu veikala. Vairāk nekā divdesmit jau ir noņemti.

Social media platform X (formerly Twitter) is currently experiencing international outages; incident not related to country-level internet disruptions or filtering #TwitterDown

Confirmed: Metrics indicate a collapse in connectivity on AS12880, a key Iran telecoms network that had so far remained partly online as part of the ~1% reserved state infrastructure. The incident corroborates reports of instability on the NIN domestic intranet

Poland says foiled cyberattack on nuclear centre may have come from Iran

Russia will be able to limit VPN traffic within 3-6 months, meaning the authorities will be able to fully block access to sites and apps currently accessible via VPN, like Whatsapp, Telegram, YouTube or Instagram, says Russian lawmaker Andrei Svintsov

Ukrainas aizsardzības ministrs: Ukraina pirmo reizi pasaulē atver kaujas lauka datus, lai apmācītu mākslīgā intelekta modeļus autonomām sistēmām. Partneriem tagad ir pieejami miljoniem anotētu kaujas kadru no tūkstošiem misiju, lai apmācītu mākslīgo intelektu. Tas rada jaunu, abpusēji izdevīgu sadarbības modeli: partneri pilnveido savas tehnoloģijas ar unikāliem datiem, savukārt Ukraina paplašina frontes līnijas spējas.

4. februārī @Starlink atspējoja termināļus Krievijas okupētajās Ukrainas daļās, kas nebija iekļauti Ukrainas Aizsardzības ministrijas apstiprinātajā sarakstā. Tā rezultātā Starlink datplūsma uz Ukrainu samazinājās par 75 %.

US medical device maker Stryker hit with cyberattack from Iranian hacktivists who remotely wiped employee devices. "many employees have had their device data wiped and cannot access their accounts" Stryker makes surgical/imaging equipment, defibrillators