Anonymous ID: 933c3a Feb. 1, 2018, 7:29 a.m. No.235440   🗄️.is 🔗kun

15 min. ago.

 

Cuba protests US internet task force

[Associated Press]

MICHAELWEISSENSTEIN

,Associated Press•February 1, 2018

 

HAVANA (AP) — Cuba is protesting the creation of a U.S. task force on increasing internet access on the island — a measure that's part of President Donald Trump's hardening of U.S. policy on Cuba.

The new policy Trump outlined in June requires the creation of a task force "to examine the technological challenges and opportunities for expanding internet access in Cuba." That would include U.S. federal funding for independent media and "internet freedom." The task force will hold its first meeting in Washington on Wednesday.

Cuba says it delivered diplomatic notes of protest to the top U.S. diplomatic in Havana and to the State Department in Washington.

The notes "rejected the goal of manipulating the internet to bring about illegal program with subversive political ends," the Cuban Foreign Ministry says.

 

www.yahoo.com/news/cuba-protests-us-internet-task-151333451.html

Anonymous ID: 933c3a Feb. 1, 2018, 7:32 a.m. No.235463   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Cryptocurrency mining malware infects over 500,000 PCs with NSA exploit

Published time: 1 Feb, 2018 14:49

 

New cryptocurrency mining viruses have lately spread to infect Windows computers as virtual currency-related malware becomes popular and profitable among cyber criminals.

The viruses are being spread using same EternalBlue exploit, which has been developed by the US National Security Agency (NSA). The exploit was recently used as part of the worldwide WannaCry ransomware attack.

According to researchers from Proofpoint, a massive global botnet dubbed ‘Smominru’ is using EternalBlue SMB exploit to infect PCs and secretly mine monero cryptocurrency (valued at $245.47) for its master.

They said the botnet has already infected more than 526,000 Windows computers, most of which are believed to be servers running unpatched versions of Windows.

Cybercriminals are using at least 25 machines to scan the internet for vulnerable PCs. They also use leaked NSA's RDP protocol exploit for infection.

The botnet operators have already mined almost 9,000 monero by stealing computing resources of millions of systems.

“Based on the hash power associated with the monero payment address for this operation, it appeared that this botnet was likely twice the size of Adylkuzz,” Proofpoint researchers said. Adylkuzz virus appeared after the WannaCry attack, creating a network of compromised computers which it could remotely control.

According to experts, the highest number of the new Smominru infections has been observed in Russia, India, and Taiwan.

“As bitcoin has become prohibitively resource-intensive to mine outside of dedicated mining farms, interest in monero has increased dramatically. While monero can no longer be mined effectively on desktop computers, a distributed botnet like that described here can prove quite lucrative for its operators,” said the researchers.

They added the operators of the botnet are “persistent, use all available exploits to expand their botnet, and have found multiple ways to recover after sinkhole operations.”

They expect those activities to continue “given the significant profits available to the botnet operators and the resilience of the botnet and its infrastructure.”

Cyber hackers are also widely adopting ‘cryptojacking attacks’ when browser-based JavaScript miners utilize website visitors' CPUs (Central Processing Unit) power to mine cryptocurrencies for monetization.

 

www.rt.com/business/417611-cryptocurrency-malware-infects-pcs

Anonymous ID: 933c3a Feb. 1, 2018, 7:47 a.m. No.235553   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5571 >>5888

Angelina Jolie urges NATO to stop use of sexual violence as a ‘weapon of war’

 

8 hours ago BY Agencies

 

BRUSSELS: UN refugee agency special envoy Angelina Jolie has called on NATO to help stop the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war, as the Hollywood star broadened her international efforts to protect women’s rights.

Jolie, who earlier this week visited a Syrian refugee camp in Jordan, made her appeal to the US-led alliance’s top decision-making body, the North Atlantic Council, in Brussels, and later met NATO military commanders.

“Violence against women and children, particularly sexual violence, is an increasing feature of conflict,” Jolie told a news conference at NATO headquarters alongside the alliance’s Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg.

“This is rape used as a weapon to achieve military or political goals. It affects men and boys as well as women and girls,” Jolie said.

NATO, which counts 29 members and has missions from Kosovo to Afghanistan, has agreed to help report on sexual violence in war to help bring perpetrators to justice and challenge the idea that rape is an unavoidable aspect of conflict.

Jolie, a mother of six who last year released her film First They Killed My Father about Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s, said she had met victims of sexual violence in conflict and was trying to be a voice for them.

Expressing frustration at the lack of assistance available to victims, Jolie said she hoped that NATO could help by raising standards in other militaries through its training programes abroad, as well as promoting the role of women in the military.

Jolie singled out the plight of Rohingya refugees fleeing violence in Myanmar and what she said was the inadequate response of many governments around the world.

“I‘m very concerned about the Rohingya, I‘m very angry at the response … I‘m very concerned about the stories of the 10-year old girls being raped,” she said.

“We should all hang our head on how little we have been able to do,” she added.

With some 65 million people forced from their homes by conflict as of the end of 2016, Jolie said the sheer scale of the refugee crisis worldwide felt overwhelming.

 

www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/02/01/angelina-jolie-urges-nato-to-stop-use-of-sexual-violence-as-a-weapon-of-war/

Anonymous ID: 933c3a Feb. 1, 2018, 8:17 a.m. No.235819   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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Exclusive Interview with Theresa May of China-UK relationships

 

Published by CGTN on Thu, 01 Feb 2018 13:43:55 GMT

China Central Television reporter Shui Junyi had a chance to talk with Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May about the prospects of China-UK relationships. This is May's first official visit to China since taking office in 2016. With its divorce from the EU, the UK has been looking to enhance its relations further afield, and it sees China as one of its most important global partners.

Anonymous ID: 933c3a Feb. 1, 2018, 8:25 a.m. No.235884   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5927

Myanmar: reporters in court for bail hearing

 

Published by AFP news agency on Thu, 01 Feb 2018 06:45:37 GMT

Two Reuters reporters, accused of breaching Myanmar's secrecy law, arrive in court as judges are due to decide whether to grant them bail. There are fears the pair could otherwise face months in detention during convoluted pre-trial hearings

Anonymous ID: 933c3a Feb. 1, 2018, 8:53 a.m. No.236118   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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China refutes CIA, ASIO accusations from US and Australia

 

Published by CGTN on Thu, 01 Feb 2018 12:25:46 GMT

China has rejected US and Australian accusations of espionage and spying. CIA Chief Mike Pompeo recently told the BBC that China is stealing American information and exerting covert influence. Meanwhile, Australia's spy agency ASIO says China is an "extreme threat" to national security.