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October Surprise 2024

The fight to protect encryption just got a boost in a ruling about …

The European Court of Human Rights made a ruling in a long-running case involving Telegram’s encrypted messaging.
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October Surprise 2024

Telegram founder’s arrest raises anxiety about future of end-to-end …

Days on from the weekend arrest of Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov in France, the tech industry is still trying to make sense of what this event means for the future of app privacy. To Durov …
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October Surprise 2024

Pavel Durov: Kremlin tries to calm fears over security of Telegram …

The Kremlin is trying to calm fears that the arrest of Telegram founder Pavel Durov in France could upend the messaging platform, which is extremely popular in Russia and plays a key role in …
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October Surprise 2024

Who Is Telegram’s Pavel Durov and Why Was He Arrested in France? – The …

Pavel Durov was charged in France, as part of wide-ranging investigation into criminal activities on the messaging platform he runs.
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October Surprise 2024

Who Is Telegram’s Pavel Durov and Why Was He Arrested in France? – The …

What We Know About the Telegram Founder’s Arrest Pavel Durov was charged in France, as part of wide-ranging investigation into criminal activities on the messaging platform he runs.
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October Surprise 2024

How Could Israeli Intelligence Miss the Hamas Invasion Plans? – CSIS

Hamas pulled off a complex, multifront assault on October 7—the kind of coordinated attack that takes months to plan and execute. Moreover, tens if not hundreds of Hamas militants were involved in the combination air, land, sea, and rocket assault, suggesting that the circle of knowledge was extensive.
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October Surprise 2024

The GRU’s Disruptive Playbook | Mandiant | Google Cloud Blog

To overcome this dilemma, the GRU has used a series of Telegram channels assuming hacktivist identities to claim responsibility for cyber attacks and leak stolen documents or other proofs from…
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October Surprise 2024

Ukraine remains Russia’s biggest cyber focus in 2023 – The Keyword

FROZENBARENTS (aka Sandworm), a group attributed to Russian Armed Forces’ Main Directorate of the General Staff (GRU) Unit 74455, continues to focus heavily on the war in Ukraine with campaigns spanning intelligence collection, IO, and leaking hacked data through Telegram.
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October Surprise 2024

Israel’s Mossad Admits for the First Time: We Were Surprised on October …

Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency has admitted for the first time that it was “surprised” by the events of October 7, 2023. “The Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations [Mossad, or in its official English name – Israeli secret intelligence service] was also surprised on the morning of the holiday of Simchat Torah [October 7] by …
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October Surprise 2024

Honeytrap? Mossad agent? Who is Juli Vavilova, mystery woman … – WION

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov, who was arrested on Saturday (August 24) upon landing in France on his private jet, was accompanied by a mystery woman, as per reports. … Other theories propose that she herself was under Mossad surveillance and her frequent posts on social media that showed her in the same locations as Durov led to his arrest. She …