Month: August 2020

Following speculations regarding participation in cyberattacks across the world, the European Union imposed travel and financial sanctions on a department of Russia’s military intelligence service along with North Korean and Chinese firms. In its first-ever sanctions associated with cybercrime, the EU targeted the department for special technologies of the Russian military intelligence service, which is known as the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Russian service has been accused of being involved in the two cyberattacks that happened in June 2017, which hit several companies in Europe. The service is also accused of two cyberattacks against Ukraine’s power grid in 2015 and 2016. As many as four individuals of the Russian milita...

5,000 protesters on two major crossroads in front of government headquarters in Sofia, Bulgaria, have blocked roads and set up tents on Eagle Bridge as they demand Prime Minister Boyko Borissov to resign with an immediate effect. Since early July this year, Bulgarians have been daily protesting accusing three-times Prime Minister Borissov of failing to fight corruption that erodes the rule of law and benefits powerful local tycoons. 61-year-old Borissov, who has dominated Bulgaria’s political life in the past decade, has vowed to stay in office until next March when regular elections are due. He clearly refuses to quit. Nikolay Hadjigenov, one of the protest organizers said, “The traffic blockades and other civil disobedience action would be maintained until Prime Minister Boyko B...