💰🔥🌍MicroStrategy now owns more Bitcoin than any country in the world

🇨🇳❌🇬🇧💻China hacked Ministry of Defence, Sky News learns

MPs will be told of a massive data breach involving the Ministry of Defence later today, targeting service personnel.

https://news.sky.com/story/china-hacked-ministry-of-defence-sky-news-learns-13130757

®️🥬👺 Xiaomi Android Devices Hit by Multiple Flaws Across Apps and System Components

Multiple security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in various applications and system components within Xiaomi devices running Android.

"The vulnerabilities in Xiaomi led to access to arbitrary activities, receivers and services with system privileges, theft of arbitrary files with system privileges, [and] disclosure of phone, settings and Xiaomi account data," mobile security firm Oversecured said in a report shared with The Hacker News.

https://thehackernews.com/2024/05/xiaomi-android-devices-hit-by-multiple.html

🇷🇺💲💰❌🇺🇸Russian Operator of BTC-e Crypto Exchange Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering

A Russian operator of a now-dismantled BTC-e cryptocurrency exchange has pleaded guilty to money laundering charges from 2011 to 2017.

Alexander Vinnik, 44, was charged in January 2017 and taken into custody in Greece in July 2017. He was subsequently extradited to the U.S. in August 2022. Vinnik and his co-conspirators have been accused of owning and managing BTC-e, which allowed its criminal customers to trade in Bitcoin with high levels of anonymity.

https://thehackernews.com/2024/05/russian-operator-of-btc-e-crypto.html

👺❌🇪🇸❌🇪🇸Proton Mail Discloses User Data Leading to Arrest in Spain

Proton Mail has come under scrutiny for its role in a legal request involving the Spanish authorities and a member of the Catalan independence organization, Democratic Tsunami.

Proton Mail is a secure email service based in Switzerland, renowned for its commitment to privacy through end-to-end encryption and a strict no-logs policy. In 2021, Proton Mail faced controversy when it complied with a legal request that led to the arrest of a French climate activist. Under Swiss law, Proton Mail was compelled to collect and provide information on the individual’s IP address to Swiss authorities, who then shared it with French police.

The recent case involving the Spanish police this time, highlights privacy concerns and the limits of encrypted communication services under national security pretexts, and brings a long-debated subject to the forefront once again.

The core of the controversy stems from Proton Mail providing the Spanish police with the recovery email address associated with the Proton Mail account of an individual using the pseudonym ‘Xuxo Rondinaire.’ This individual is suspected of being a member of the Mossos d’Esquadra (Catalonia’s police force) and of using their internal knowledge to assist the Democratic Tsunami movement.

https://restoreprivacy.com/protonmail-discloses-user-data-leading-to-arrest-in-spain/

🇮🇹🚨👮‍♀️💶 Italian police seize €48 million counterfeit euros from a clandestine printing press in Naples.

Police say that since April they print €50 Euro banknotes 24/7.
7 people detained.

https://video.repubblica.it/edizione/napoli/napoli-sequestrati-48-milioni-di-euro-falsi-ecco-la-stamperia-clandestina/468723/469677?ref=RHRT-BG-P1-S1-T1

🚨💻👁👮‍♀️ New series of measures issued against the administrator of LockBit

Today, authorities from the United Kingdom, United States and Australia are revealing the second phase of Operation Cronos.

The administrator and developer of LockBit, a Russian national, is now subject to a series of asset freezes and travel bans issued by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, alongside the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Prosecutors in the United States have also unsealed an indictment against him based on his alleged role as the creator, developer, and administrator of the LockBit ransomware variant. Additionally, authorities in the United States are offering a reward of up to USD 10 million for information leading to his arrest and/or conviction.

https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/lockbit-leader-unmasked-and-sanctioned

https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/new-measures-issued-against-lockbit

🇺🇸👍📈💰 Bitcoin Could Benefit From U.S. Fiscal Dominance and a Trump Win, Standard Chartered Says

A Trump election victory could be positive for crypto as his administration would likely push for a more supportive regulatory environment, the report said.

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2024/05/07/bitcoin-could-benefit-from-us-fiscal-dominance-and-a-trump-win-standard-chartered-says/

📱❌🇺🇸 TikTok, ByteDance sue to block US law seeking sale or ban of app

TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance said on Tuesday they filed suit in U.S. federal court seeking to block a law signed by President Joe Biden that would force the divestiture of the short video app used by 170 million Americans or ban its use.

The companies said they filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia arguing that the law violates the U.S. Constitution on a number of grounds, including running afoul of First Amendment free speech protections. The law, signed by Biden on April 24, gives China's ByteDance until Jan. 19 to sell TikTok or face a ban.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/tiktok-bytedance-sue-block-us-law-seeking-sale-or-ban-app-2024-05-07/

👤🗯🇺🇸💥🇷🇸 — 🇬🇧 Financial Times | Xi Jinping lashes out at Nato over 1999 Belgrade bombing ahead of Serbia visit | Chinese president cites ties ‘forged with blood’ as he looks for allies during first European trip in 5 years | May 7, 2024:

"China’s President Xi Jinping has lashed out at Nato over its “flagrant” bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade in 1999 as he tries to cement ties with Serbia ahead of a visit to the Balkan country on Tuesday.

Xi, who is travelling in Europe for the first time in five years, will head to Serbia on Tuesday afternoon from the French Pyrenees, where French President Emmanuel Macron is hosting him on the final day of a three-day state visit to France.

In a signed letter in the Serbian media outlet Politika, Xi invoked the 25th anniversary on Tuesday of the Nato bombing of the Chinese embassy in the former Yugoslavia during the Kosovo war to call for unity between Beijing and Belgrade."

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💰❌ LocalMonero is leaving the space

Hey everyone,

After almost 7 years of operation, we have made the difficult decision to close our platform.

The winding-down process begins today, and finishes 6 months from now. Our support will be available for help throughout this period.

https://localmonero.co/blog/announcements/winding-down

https://twitter.com/LocalMoneroCo/status/1787919500047720843

💻 We're at war, anon ‼️

In the space of two weeks, we've seen:

- @SamouraiWallet indicted, arrested, and shut down
- @wasabiwallet pull from the US, then shut down
- @PhoenixWallet pull from the US
- @TornadoCash case escalated by DoJ
- FBI "warning" against no-KYC tool usage
- Elizabeth Warren letter

And now the biggest no-KYC Monero on-ramp from fiat, @LocalMoneroCo, has shut down with no clear reasoning (easy to speculate). If you thought we wouldn't face an adversarial environment for years, or that Bitcoin would simply win because it's Bitcoin, you were wrong.

The war is right here, right now, and if we don't all band together across tribal divides they'll divide and conquer.

It's time to wake the fuck up and arm yourself with the digital tools you need.

https://twitter.com/sethforprivacy/status/1787928728732885140

🇷🇺❌👤 — 🏴 ZeroHedge | Zelensky Assassination Plot Foiled, Two Colonels Arrested, Ukraine Intelligence Says | May 07, 2024:

"The Ukrainian government and intelligence services are claiming that a major assassination plot targeting President Volodymyr Zelensky has been thwarted. The plot also allegedly aimed to take out other top military and political figures.

Ukraine's state security service (SBU) unveiled the plot Tuesday in announcing the detention of two colonels in the State Guard of Ukraine said to be involved in the criminal conspiracy. The State Guard is responsible for protecting top political as well as military figures, somewhat akin to the Secret Service in the US.

If found guilty, the detained officers would face a life sentence, or possibly a worse fate given the country is currently under martial law due to the long-running war.

The SBU is alleging Russian involvement, specifically claiming that a network of agents from Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) had been "preparing the assassination of the president of Ukraine" and other senior officials.

"Counterintelligence were detained and SBU investigators foiled the plans of the FSB to eliminate the president of Ukraine and other representatives of the top military and political leadership of the state," the SBU stated on Telegram."

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