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 by Staff Writers Prague (AFP) Sept 25, 2019
China was behind a major cyber attack at a key government institution in the Czech Republic last year, the EU member's intelligence agency said in a report Wednesday. Without providing details, the agency known as NUKIB said the attack "was almost certainly carried out by a state actor or a related group," with "a Chinese actor" the most likely suspect. More broadly speaking, China and Russia pose the biggest threat to cybersecurity in the Czech Republic, the intelligence agency said in its 2018 report quoted by the Czech News Agency. The Czech foreign ministry in particular has become the target of hackers' attacks. The Czech cabinet is due to discuss the findings on Monday. NUKIB spokesman Radek Holy told AFP the watchdog would not make the report public until then. In August, the Denik N daily said Russian military intelligence (GRU) was most probably behind the latest attack on the foreign ministry which took place in June. In its report for 2017, the NUKIB warned Russian and Chinese diplomats had stepped up their spying activities on Czech soil owing to Russia's large embassy in Prague and China's huge financial resources. This sparked criticism from pro-Chinese, pro-Russian, anti-Muslim Czech President Milos Zeman who called on the intelligence agency to look for Muslim terrorists on Czech territory instead.
Twitter closes thousands of fake news accounts worldwide Washington (AFP) Sept 20, 2019 Twitter said Friday it shut down thousands of accounts worldwide for spreading misinformation, including some artificially amplifying pro-Saudi messaging as part of a regional propaganda war. The move affected pro-Saudi accounts coming from Egypt and the United Arab Emirates directed at Qatar and Yemen, Twitter said, as well as others from China seeking to sow discord among protesters in Hong Kong. Additional fake accounts were suspended in Spain and Ecuador, Twitter's safety team said. The ... read more
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