Cyber Attacks, War & Terrorism
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Lebanon is on edge after thousands of electronic devices exploded across two days
On Tuesday, thousands of pagers exploded, before hundreds of walkie-talkies did the same on Wednesday – multiple sources say Israel’s Mossad spy agency was targeting Hezbollah members
The walkie-talkie blasts killed 20 and injured at least 450; the pager explosions killed 12 and injured more than 2,000
Israel has not commented on the blasts, but on Wednesday, Israel’s Defence Minister Yoav Gallant announced “a new phase in the war”
A division of Israel’s military has relocated from Gaza to the north, where the country borders Lebanon
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah is due to give a televised speech later
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Read MoreThe British government’s open-doors approach to electric vehicles from Communist China threatens to undercut domestic manufacturing and expose the country to national security risks, with a think tank warning that EVs could be “weaponised” by Beijing.
A report from the China Strategic Risks Institute (CSRI) warned that the growing market share of and dependency on Chinese-made electric vehicles in Britain presents both “economic and security risks” to the United Kingdom.
The report noted that the UK’s domestic car industry i
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Read MoreThe exploding pagers that injured thousands and killed nine on Tuesday were made in Hungary, a key European ally of Israel, the Taiwanese company whose brand name appeared on them said.
Nearly 3,000 people were injured and nine killed in simultaneous explosions caused by pagers apparently carried by Hezbollah militants on Tuesday. Attention has now turned to how Hezbollah’s communication systems could have been so thoroughly infiltrated, and to the company whose branding appeared on the devices, Gold Apollo.
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Read MoreThe U.S. Department of Defense Office of the Inspector General (DoD OIG) revealed that the Pentagon sent American allies in Taiwan a shipment of “moldy” tactical vests and expired ammunition, the South China Morning Post reported on Tuesday, among other “unserviceable” items.
The revelation appeared in a report made public by the watchdog office on September 12 featuring unsightly images of military equipment “soaking wet and covered in mold,” forcing the Taiwanese government to spend significant time and energy parsing through the massive useless military shipment and costing American officials hundreds of thousands of dollars to ameliorate.
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Read MoreMPs are vulnerable to electronic surveillance by foreign agents, the chair of the Commons national defence committee said yesterday. Testifying at the Commission on Foreign Interference, Liberal MP John McKay (Scarborough-Guildwood, Ont.) said Chinese hacking of his own cellphone may have exposed contacts he built up through nine terms in Parliament.
“I started to think about how I may have inadvertently or unwittingly exposed personal and partisan activities to my parliamentary account,” testified McKay. “I don’t think there’s been any consequences of that but in truth I don’t know.”
McKay in 2021 was identified as one of 400 account holders targeted by Chinese agents. All were members of the Interparliamentary Alliance on China, a pro-democracy group.
“Maybe I am just being paranoid here in think
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Read MoreA British Columbia imam known for preaching hardline Islamist views told Muslim youth in Victoria that Jews are their “real enemy” and that God would have taken “vengeance upon them himself” but instead ordered Muslims to engage in an armed struggle against the Jewish people.
In a video documented by Memri, an organization that monitors Islamist extremism, Imam Sheikh Younus Kathrada told youth on Aug. 2 at the Muslim Youth Center in Victoria, B.C., that God has ordered
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Read MoreMore than a dozen soldiers were sent to hospital on Sept. 17 afternoon after an accident at a military base in Quebec.
Capt. Hermione Wilson, a public affairs officer with the Canadian Armed Forces, said the accident took place at Canadian Forces Base Valcartier.
Wilson said the accident in the base’s training area involved two armoured vehicles.
She said civilian and military emergency services responded immediately to the scene.
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Read MoreEuropol said the encrypted communication platform was used for ‘large-scale drug trafficking, money laundering, instances of extreme violence.’
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A global police operation has dismantled an encrypted communication platform called Ghost, which was allegedly used by criminals, leading to 51 arrests worldwide.
The Europol-led operation involved a series of “coordinated raids and technical interventions” and took down Ghost servers in France and Iceland, according to Europol’s Sept. 18 press release.
Ghost was used as a tool to “carry out a wide range of criminal activities, including large-scale drug trafficking, money laundering, instances of extreme violence and other forms of seriou
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Read MoreCanada’s state broadcaster scheduled “listening sessions” to challenge Jewish self-determination, effectively alienating Jewish Canadians and reporters.
As first reported by the Toronto Sun, the state broadcaster orchestrated “listening sessions” for staff to “challenge the status quo of Zionism,” which left some journalists outraged.
“Many of us Jewish journalists have sp
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Read MoreIn one video, a man clutches his arm, a pool of blood at his feet, as Ukrainian soldiers attempt to bandage his wounds. A photograph of another incident shows a mangled blue sports car, its windscreen completely caved in. Inside, a 34-year-old woman was reportedly killed and her 36-year-old husband seriously injured.
This is just a glimpse of the reality uncovered by open source footage of Russian drone attacks in Beryslav – a small city on the west bank of the Dnipro River, a key strategic front in Russia’s war on Ukraine.
An investigation carried out by DW Investigations, supported by CIR’s Eyes on Russia project, has revealed a concerning trend: these drone attacks appear to be systematically targeting civilian buildings and vehicles in an attempt to hinder movement near the frontline.
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