Chinese threat group APT31 (or Zirconium) has been hijacking home routers to form a proxy mesh around its server infrastructure in order to relay and disguise the origins of their attacks.
French National Cybersecurity Agency aka ANSSI published
a list of 161 IP addresses that have been hijacked by APT31 in recent attacks against French organizations.
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China state hacking group APT31 has been compromising large numbers of home and office routers for use in a vast and ongoing attack against organizations in France.
There’s no mention of the massive flooding and death toll in Zhengzhou on the front page of People’s Daily.
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There’s no direct mention of the Zhengzhou flooding in the headlines on the front page of the web version of People’s Daily either. See the red line I added in? The “fine print” there is where you click for the Zhengzhou flooding story.
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State media claimed last night (July 20) that passengers trapped in Zhengzhou subway were being saved and no one was in danger but they’re actually still trapped inside and many died in the end.
Think what state media did when the coronavirus first appeared in Wuhan in 2019.
Remember how China crowed about their success in containing the outbreak and laughed at western democracies questioning why countries like the US, UK etc didn’t close down their borders sooner? But...
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China lashed out at the US after Trump signed EO to impose bans on flights from China, and WHO urged the world NOT to impose trade and travel bans...
Beijing was angry at countries imposing harsh travel restrictions on visitors from China as the world tried to contain the spread of a deadly coronavirus!
In Bahrain, residents who are over 50, are obese or have chronic illnesses are urged to get a Pfizer-BioNTech shot 6 months after their full Sinopharm vaccination. 😁
In Dubai, the most populous of the seven members of the UAE, the emirate’s health authorities have also quietly begun revaccinating with Pfizer-BioNTech those residents who had been fully inoculated with Sinopharm. 😂
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Dubai residents Brindha Satheshwaran and her husband were vaccinated with Sinopharm in Jan but her hubby subsequently took an antibody test that turned out to be negative. They both decided to get 2 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech, and received the first of them in late May.
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Massive deployments of riot police in Hong Kong today: Causeway Bay, Wanchai, Admiralty and Central. They’ve been making mass arrests of peaceful unarmed protesters, mostly youngsters.
HK CCPolice rounded up 30+ youngsters outside Hysan Place, Causeway Bay...
Another squad of HK CCPolice rounded up more unarmed protesters near Pacific Place, Admiralty.