Russia and Ukraine traded aerial attacks overnight, resulting in two deaths in each country, according to officials. Ukraine’s southern Dnipro and northeastern Sumy regions came under combined rocket and drone attack, local officials reported. Head of the Dnipro regional administration Serhii Lysak said at least two people had died and five were wounded in the…
The number of online employment scams in Hong Kong recorded from January to May nearly doubled from the same period last year, while losses jumped by 89 per cent to HK$480 million (US$61.1 million), with police attributing the rise to “click farming” swindles proliferating. Superintendent Rachel Hui Yee-wai of the force’s cybersecurity and technology crime…
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov recently gave intriguing ‘one-sentence’ personality assessments for his tech rivals including Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Speaking to a French publication Le Point, Durov offered a sharp assessments for the three tech CEOs. What Telegram CEO Pavel Durov said about Tesla Elon Musk…
Nearly 100 Hongkongers have been scammed out of HK$90 million (US$11.6 million) in just one week by online fraudsters posing as investment experts to lure victims into betting on cryptocurrency and stocks by offering fake insider knowledge and tips. One 84-year-old businessman suffered the largest single loss when he was deceived into investing in cryptocurrency,…
The Albuquerque Police Department (APD) warned parents on Wednesday morning about the connection between juvenile crime and social media.”There are a lot of different items being offered on the internet that are not good for our children’s health and won’t lead to productive futures,” Harold Medina, Albuquerque’s police chief, said.According to APD, social media is…
Huione Group has been linked to cyber fraud, but it managed to get some of its crypto apps on Apple and Google marketplaces. (Photo by Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images) NurPhoto via Getty Images For the last few months, Apple and Google’s app stores hosted apps developed by Huione Group, a Cambodia-based company that was…
During this year’s election season in Mexico, propagandists leveraged a new mass-broadcasting feature on WhatsApp, called “channels,” to impersonate reputable political news outlets and pump out misleading information. Thousands of miles away, Telegram users in Hungary leveraged the app’s forwarding bot against LGBTQ+ and pro-democracy civil society organizations, portraying them as “Western-controlled” ahead of European…
On November 23rd last year, hours after the tragic stabbing incident in Dublin city centre, users in a private group chat on the Telegram messaging platform discussed plans for that evening. One voice note included the message, “Seven o’clock, be in town. Everyone bally up [wear balaclavas], tool up. And any f***ing g**o, foreigner, anyone,…