🇹🇷💻 Turkey’s biggest crypto exchange BtcTurk hacked

Turkey’s biggest cryptocurrency market BtcTurk said in an announcement on Saturday that their exchange had been hacked, while a popular Bitcoin analyst claimed that the amount of money stolen amounted to nearly 51 million euros.

https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/06/22/turkeys-biggest-crypto-exchange-btcturk-hacked

🇯🇵❤️💰 Japanese public company Metaplanet Inc. issues ¥1 billion (around $6.3milion) in 0.5% bonds to buy more #Bitcoin

https://x.com/Crypto_Inside_/status/1805130156979237363

🌍⚡️Global Data Centers now consume more electricity than most countries

https://fxtwitter.com/Crypto_Inside_/status/1805129713901298005

🇦🇺🕊🇺🇸 — Wikileaks Founder and Freedom of Speech Hero is expected to plead guilty in a deal that could free him from prison, British Media says

➡️ WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange reached an agreement with the United States Court on Monday (24) to plead guilty to espionage charges in exchange for his freedom, according to prosecutors in US court documents.

➡️ After weeks of negotiations, Assange will plead guilty this week to violating US espionage law. The agreement should allow Assange to be released from prison in the United Kingdom and return to Australia, the country of which he is a citizen and born in.

➡️ With the agreement, the WikiLeaks founder will face a criminal charge of conspiracy to obtain and disclose classified US national defense documents during a hearing in the Northern Mariana Islands at 9 am on Wednesday local time

➡️ The US wants to try Assange for leaking 700,000 confidential documents since 2010 about American military and diplomatic activities, mainly in Iraq and Afghanistan during the Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom, where US and NATO toppled the Baathist Authorities of Iraq and liberated Afghanistan from the Taliban's Islamic Emirate Regime, showing to the world abuses of power, corruption schemes and possible Human rights violations by Western Armies

➡️ One of the materials leaked by Assange was a video showing US soldiers executing 18 civilians from a helicopter in Iraq. Others showed the murders of civilians, including journalists, as well as abuses committed by authorities in the US and other countries. As the identities of people who cooperated with the military in the Middle East were revealed, US officials stated that the leak put lives at risk.

➡️ "My client is being prosecuted for carrying out a common journalistic practice of obtaining and publishing confidential information, truthful information and information of clear and important public interest," Assange's lawyer, Edward Fitzgerald, said in court.

➡️ Assange could be sentenced to 175 years in prison if he were extradited to the United States

🇦🇺🕊🇺🇸 — 📹 Video: Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange was seen boarding a plane after his release from prison.

He left United Kingdom according to his organization, Wikileaks
Per WIkileaks, Mr. Assange boarded at London Stansted Airport at 5PM (BST) Monday June 24th.

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🇦🇺🕊🇺🇸 — 📰 BNO News: Julian Assange is on board VistaJet Flight 199, which is currently over Afghanistan en-route to Bangkok.

After Bangkok, he will fly to the Northern Mariana Islands to plead guilty before going to his home country, Australia.

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🇨🇳❌🇹🇼 — 🇺🇸 CNN | How China could take Taiwan without even needing to invade | June 22, 2024:

"China’s military could isolate Taiwan, cripple its economy, and make the democratic island succumb to the will of Beijing’s ruling Communist Party without ever firing a shot, a prominent think tank warns.

(...) Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), warns there is a third way, one that will make it far harder for the United States and other like-minded democracies to counter: Quarantine.

Using “gray zone” tactics – actions just below what might be considered acts of war – the China Coast Guard, its so-called maritime militia and various police and maritime safety agencies could initiate a full or partial quarantine of Taiwan, possibly cutting off access to its ports and stopping vital supplies like energy from reaching the island’s 23 million people, a newly released report from CSIS says."

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🇨🇳❌🇹🇼 — 🇹🇼 Taipei Times | China might quarantine Taiwan, report says |June 23, 2024:

"China might seek to isolate Taiwan and weaken its economy through a “quarantine,” which would make it difficult for the US to respond and force Taipei to negotiate on unification, CNN reported on Saturday.

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s (習近平) “increasingly bellicose actions” toward Taiwan have heightened concerns that Beijing would use its military against Taiwan, it said, citing a report by think tank the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).

However, China might choose to initiate a quarantine, rather than a military invasion of Taiwan, to avoid US involvement, it said."

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🇷🇺🤝🇨🇳💸 — 🇺🇦 Ukrainian channel ZN.UA on Telegram:

"Russia and China are trying to create an alternative to the American dollar and are already offering eastern and southern countries a new unit of international calculations, which was called The Unit - Polish RMF FM.

The new currency is expected to be largely backed by gold reserves. Currently, China is consistently implementing its plan to abandon the dollar, get rid of American bonds, and accumulate gold reserves.

So far, only Russia is talking about the launch of a new currency, The Unit, competitive with the dollar. How serious the Kremlin's intentions are will be shown by the summit of the BRICS countries, which will be held in Kazan in the fall."

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🇺🇸🤝🇦🇺 — 🏴 ZeroHedge | "Julian Is Free!" Assange Released After 'Time Served' Plea Deal With DOJ, Departs For Home | June 24, 2024:

"In a shocking turn of events, Julian Assange will plead guilty to leaking US national security secrets and return to his native Australia, under a deal with Biden's DoJ that ends a nearly 15-year battle nightmare for the WikiLeaks founder.

After spending more than a decade holed up and imprisoned in London - mainly to avoid being sent to the US - Assange, 52, is expected to be sentenced to time served (62 months in a Belmarsh prison - a high security facility in South-East London) during a court appearance Wednesday in Saipan, in the US Northern Mariana Islands, avoiding a potentially lengthy sentence in an American prison.

Update(2124ET): WikiLeaks has released its first footage showing Julian Assange as a free man, emerging from Belmarsh prison looking triumphant and joyous, and soon after boarding a plane to his native Australia...

Below is the official statement from WikiLeaks:

JULIAN ASSANGE IS FREE Julian Assange is free. He left Belmarsh maximum security prison on the morning of 24 June, after having spent 1901 days there. He was granted bail by the High Court in London and was released at Stansted airport during the afternoon, where he boarded a plane and departed the UK. This is the result of a global campaign that spanned grass-roots organisers, press freedom campaigners, legislators and leaders from across the political spectrum, all the way to the United Nations."

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⌨️⚡️📑🏦🇺🇸 The Lockbit ransomware group announced that it had breached the US Federal Reserve and exfiltrated 33 TB of sensitive data.

The Lockbit ransomware group announced that it had breached the systems of Federal Reserve of the United States and exfiltrated 33 TB of sensitive data, including “Americans’ banking secrets.”

The Lockbit ransomware group added the Federal Reserve to the list of victims on its Tor data leak site and threatened to leak the stolen data on 25 June, 2024 20:27:10 UTC.

https://www.redhotcyber.com/en/post/lockbit-3-0-claims-attack-on-federal-reserve-33-terabytes-of-sensitive-data-allegedly-compromised/

https://securityaffairs.com/164873/cyber-crime/lockbit-claims-hacked-us-federal-reserve.html

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🇰🇪 🤝 🇺🇸 Kenya has become the first African “Major non-NATO Ally” of the U.S.

🇨🇳 🇷🇺 🏴 It comes as Washington seeks to push back against growing Russian and Chinese influence in the region.

📢 US President Joe Biden designated Kenya as a "major non-NATO ally" on Monday, making it the first sub-Saharan African nation to receive the designation.

"By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 517 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended (22 U.S.C. 2321k) (the “Act”), I hereby designate Kenya as a Major Non-NATO Ally of the United States for the purposes of the Act and the Arms Export Control Act," said a White House memorandum.

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🔶️ Biden then pointed to Nairobi's assistance with the US's national security priorities, including efforts to defeat the Daesh/ISIS terror group as well as al-Shabab in East Africa, what Biden described as "mutual support" for Ukraine and ongoing efforts to deploy a Kenyan security force in the instability-wracked Caribbean island nation of Haiti.

https://trtafrika.com/africa/us-designates-kenya-as-major-non-nato-ally-18176652

🇮🇱🤝🇺🇸👤🛰 — Israel eyes use of Musk's Starlink in event of war with Hezbollah


➡️ The Ministries of Finance and Communications are exploring the use of Elon Musk's satellite communications company, Starlink, to maintain internet connectivity in Israel during potential disruptions or power outages caused by an all-out war in the north.

➡️ Last February, Minister of Communications Shlomo Karhi signed an operating license for Starlink services in Israel. At the same time, Israel permitted the operation of the service in the Gaza Strip for entities providing humanitarian aid, including operating a field hospital established in Rafah by the United Arab Emirates.

➡️ With the signing of Starlink's operating license in Israel, the Ministry of Communications stated that the service would focus on areas close to the fighting, aiming to provide stable communication to local authorities, emergency units, and government bodies in cases of wired and cellular communication malfunctions.

➡️ According to scenarios by the National Emergency Management Authority (NEMA) and electricity company Noga, damage by Hezbollah to sensitive electricity production and transmission facilities could lead to blackouts in large areas of the country, especially in the northern region. In the event of a power outage lasting more than two hours, the relay stations of the cellular network may also collapse.

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🇷🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺 Serbia, through third countries, supplied Ukraine with ammunition worth about 800 million euros - Financial Times.

The President of Serbia himself agreed with the estimates published by the publication, noting that this figure corresponds to the approximate indicators for 2-3 years. At the same time, Aleksandar Vucic said that these supplies are part of the “economic revival” of the country and they have a “great opportunity” to make money, since the weapons produced in Serbia are cheaper than Western ones.

According to Vucic, Serbia exports ammunition to the USA, Spain, the Czech Republic and other countries, and where they end up next is no longer his concern .