Political strife and natural disasters have stripped millions of people of internet access over the last two weeks, with experts raising particular concern over actions taken by Turkey's government. This article explores the intentional and unintentiaional sequestering of social media communication. Last week, the Turkish government shut down access to social media sites in the Kayseri region of the country due to local anti-Syrian immigrant riots. While hundreds of governments have proven the
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Activity Summary - Week Ending 16 April 2021:
- Red Sky Alliance observed 58 new unique email accounts compromised with Keyloggers
- Analysts identified 30,373 connections from new unique IP addresses
- 3,512 new IP addresses participating in various Botnets were Observed
- Security Researcher under Attack
- CISA’s New Tool – Aviary
- FormBook Malware
- State Sponsored APT
- Lazarus and Vyvera
- TiT-for-TaT is Never Good
- Myanmar and Taiwan Protests
Link to full report: IR-21-106-001_weekly_106.pdf
The Hong Kong government’s attempt to enact an extradition agreement with mainland China sparked mass demonstrations in Hong Kong in June 2019. Protesters took to the streets in record numbers, with as many as two million protesters reported at the peak of the demonstrations. By 23 June, Hong Kong’s Chief Executive had suspended action on the extradition bill.
The mainland Chinese government’s reaction to these events has been surprisingly weak. Throughout the month of June, China’s Foreign M
