cybersecurity
U.K. Foreign Secretary David Cameron held a video call with someone impersonating former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, the BBC and other media outlets reported on June 7, citing comments from the U.K.'s Foreign Office. Bolstered by the advent of new technology, deep-fakes and impersonations of public figures have become commonplace in recent years. An investigation by the Kyiv Independent in January revealed that a suspected Russian disinformation group had also posed as Poroshenko in doctored video-calls, with the apparent aim of sowing distrust toward President Volodymyr Zelensky. A ...
Kyiv Independent (CA)
U.K. Foreign Secretary David Cameron held a video call with someone impersonating former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, the BBC and other media outlets reported on June 7, citing comments from the U.K.'s Foreign Office. Bolstered by the advent of new technology, deep-fakes and impersonations of public figures have become commonplace in recent years. An investigation by the Kyiv Independent in January revealed that a suspected Russian disinformation group had also posed as Poroshenko in doctored video-calls, with the apparent aim of sowing distrust toward President Volodymyr Zelensky. A ...
Kyiv Independent
U.K. Foreign Secretary David Cameron held a video call with someone impersonating former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, the BBC and other media outlets reported on June 7, citing comments from the U.K.'s Foreign Office. Bolstered by the advent of new technology, deep-fakes and impersonations of public figures have become commonplace in recent years. An investigation by the Kyiv Independent in January revealed that a suspected Russian disinformation group had also posed as Poroshenko in doctored video-calls, with the apparent aim of sowing distrust toward President Volodymyr Zelensky. A ...
Kyiv Independent (UK)
Apparent cyberattacks on EU political parties are just the latest round of disruption to an election campaign that has become increasingly fractious. From 6-9 June, hundreds of millions of voters are going to the polls in one of the world’s biggest democratic exercises – after a months-long period that has been marked by both peaceful protest and, occasionally, physical violence. Pro-Kremlin hackers have claimed responsibility for a series of attacks on Dutch websites on Thursday (6 June) – the day that voters in the Netherlands went to the polls to select their 31 MEPs for the next five years...
Euronews (English)
A ransomware attack against a lab provider disrupted several hospitals and primary care doctors in London this week, delaying operations and blood tests. The attack had a “significant impact,” with the lab provider Synnovis stating it was a “harsh reminder that this sort of attack can happen to anyone at any time,” but the NHS does not know the full impact on data at this point. “All urgent and emergency services remain open as usual and the majority of outpatient services continue to operate as normal,” an NHS spokesperson said on Thursday. “Unfortunately, some operations and procedures which...
Euronews (English)
EU-related misinformation by foreign actors is surging to its highest-ever levels as the clock ticks closer to the first days of voting in the European elections. The European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO), an independent fact-checking network, published research on Tuesday that showed disinformation about EU policies or institutions made up 15 percent of all cases they detected in May - the highest value seen since they started tracking EU misinformation in 2023. The study comes after the Guardian newspaper reported that EU leaders had put rapid alert teams on notice to deal with a “tsunam...
Euronews (English)
Belgium and Poland are the latest in a line of European countries that are rapidly moving to limit disinformation and protect national security as more governments on the continent take the Kremlin's alleged "malign influence" seriously. In Warsaw, a special commission tasked with investigating Russian and Belarusian influence in Poland began its work on Wednesday, Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced. At a news conference in the Polish capital, Tusk and other officials described the commission as a non-partisan body of experts whose aim is to protect national security. In May, Tusk ordered th...
Euronews (English)
Ukraine's military intelligence agency (HUR) was behind a large-scale DDoS attack that "paralyzed" the work of several Russian ministries and companies, a source in the agency told the Kyiv Independent on June 5. Roskomnadzor, Russia's state communications regulator, said on June 3 that several government websites had been rendered "partially inaccessible," allegedly due to the failure of "sections of the main communications network." The source told the Kyiv Independent that the failure was, in fact, caused by the cyberattack. Ukrainska Pravda (UP) reported that according to its undisclosed m...
Kyiv Independent (UK)
Ukraine's military intelligence agency (HUR) was behind a large-scale DDoS attack that "paralyzed" the work of several Russian ministries and companies, a source in the agency told the Kyiv Independent on June 5. Roskomnadzor, Russia's state communications regulator, said on June 3 that several government websites had been rendered "partially inaccessible," allegedly due to the failure of "sections of the main communications network." The source told the Kyiv Independent that the failure was, in fact, caused by the cyberattack. Ukrainska Pravda (UP) reported that according to its undisclosed m...
Kyiv Independent (CA)
Ukraine's military intelligence agency (HUR) was behind a large-scale DDoS attack that "paralyzed" the work of several Russian ministries and companies, a source in the agency told the Kyiv Independent on June 5. Roskomnadzor, Russia's state communications regulator, said on June 3 that several government websites had been rendered "partially inaccessible," allegedly due to the failure of "sections of the main communications network." The source told the Kyiv Independent that the failure was, in fact, caused by the cyberattack. Ukrainska Pravda (UP) reported that according to its undisclosed m...
Kyiv Independent
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