Microsoft and Lumen's Black Lotus Labs find Russia-linked Turla hackers hijacked Pakistan-based hackers' servers to launch their own attacks since December 2022
The notorious Russian cyber-espionage group Turla is hacking other hackers, hijacking the Pakistani threat actor Storm-0156's infrastructure …
Malwarebytes: 77% of ad accounts used for “malvertising”, like in search results, are used just once and 90% of the ad fraud comes from Pakistan and Vietnam
Lily Hay Newman / Wired : See also Mediagazer
Former Pakistan PM Imran Khan, in jail since August 2023 for allegedly leaking classified documents, uses ElevenLabs' AI voice clone tool for a campaign speech
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Google finds and helps patch a Zimbra Collaboration email server zero-day used to steal data from governments in Greece, Moldova, Tunisia, Vietnam, and Pakistan
It links the attacks to past Chinese APT activity, but does not formally attribute the attacks. — It also points out that Winter Vivern (suspected Belarus) also exploited this after a patch was rele...
Qurium report: 1M+ bots are targeting Iranian #MeToo activists on Instagram in a coordinated harassment campaign using social media marketing firms in Pakistan
Andrew Deck / Rest of World : Source: Qurium Media Foundation .
Investigation details how caller ID app Truecaller, which has 205M+ MAUs in India, uses India's weak data privacy laws to build its user information database
In October 2021, I called a journalist based in Pakistan, who did not know me. Surprisingly, they greeted me by my name when they received the call.
A look at Cardano, a controversial blockchain-based project led by Ethereum cofounder Charles Hoskinson that aims to build a national ID system for Ethiopia
There are countless examples of the dangers posed by national ID schemes, including from Kenya, Uganda, Pakistan, India and elsewhere. Tweets: @hackylawyer , @hijodelcuervo , @ahcastor , and @bronwenm...
CEO of US-based cybersecurity company Exodus Intelligence says India bought and likely weaponized its Windows zero-day research to spy on China and Pakistan
A U.S. company's tech was abused by the Indian government, amidst warnings Americans are contributing to a spyware industry already under fire for being out of control.
How a Pakistan-born developer's open letter to Tim Cook helped bring the Urdu language typeface to Apple devices
a script like “the wings of flying geese”—users resort to transliteration with Latin fonts. @AlizehKohari investigates. https://restofworld.org/... Tori Elliott / @telliotter : If you need something h...
How students in a remote part of Pakistan mobilized during the pandemic to demand better internet from the military-run unit controlling it
but the internet is the worst of all, and a growing movement is making a lot of noise about it By @AlizehKohari https://restofworld.org/... Anup Kaphle / @anupkaphle : How far would you go to get inte...