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October Surprise 2024

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov Charged With Wide Range of Crimes in France …

Aug. 28, 2024. Leer en español. Pavel Durov, the Russian-born entrepreneur who founded the online communications tool Telegram, was charged on Wednesday in France with a wide range of crimes for …
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October Surprise 2024

Everything We Know About Despicable Me 4 and the Return of Gru – NBC

Fans have been waiting for the fourth Despicable Me sequel for seven years. At last, we get to see ex-supervillain Gru (Steve Carell) settling into suburban life as a husband and dad.
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October Surprise 2024

Telegram account leaks personal details of Mossad chief

An anonymous Telegram account has leaked personal details and documents of Mossad chief David Barnea in a video that claims to be the result of a yearslong surveillance operation.
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October Surprise 2024

What Will Be Trump’s “October Surprise”? – by Thom Hartmann

Now US intelligence agencies say their big worry is that one or more of these nations will reciprocate Trump’s love by launching some sort of October Surprise to push voters closer to Trump in time for this fall’s election.
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October Surprise 2024

Hamas Surprise Attack: Is It Mossad’s Failure? – EU Intelligence

On 7 October 2023, Hamas, the Palestinian de facto but internationally widely unrecognized army, conducted a surprise and coordinated assault on Israel, breaching borders and launching a significant attack.
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October Surprise 2024

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov faces preliminary charges for allowing crime …

Telegram founder Pavel Durov’s various citizenships add to the mystery of his detention. The first preliminary charge against him was for ‘’complicity in managing an online platform to allow illicit transactions by an organized group,’’ a crime that can lead to sentences of up to 10 years in prison and 500,000 euro fine, the prosecutor …
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October Surprise 2024

Mandiant Unveils Russian GRU’s Cyber Playbook Against Ukraine

All this primarily happened on Telegram, “which has emerged as a critical source of sensemaking, war-related information operations, and a key recruitment platform for volunteer cyber “armies” in the conflict,” wrote Mandiant researchers. UNC3810 and CyberArmyofRussia_Reborn’s Links to the GRU.
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October Surprise 2024

CIA Launches Telegram Channel – CIA – The World Factbook

CIA Launches Telegram Channel. On Monday, for the first time, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) established a presence on Telegram to reach individuals in countries who have no access to other social media or independent media.
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October Surprise 2024

European Court of Human Rights Confirms: Weakening Encryption Violates …

The FSB (the Russian Federal Security Service) subsequently ordered Telegram to assist in decrypting the communications of specific users suspected of engaging in terrorism-related activities.
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October Surprise 2024

Why the Telegram CEO’s arrest is such a big deal – The Verge

In his interview with Carlson, Durov claimed that at one point, the FBI — which played a key role in the Anom operation — attempted to convince Telegram to include a surveillance backdoor.