The hacking gang Lapsus$ announced that it had stolen 190 GB of Samsung data, claiming it includes source code for Samsung TrustZone and Knox, biometric unlocking, bootloader servers activation, account verification and even some proprietary Qualcomm code. No personal information was stolen during the hack. The torrent containing these files has already been downloaded by at least 400 peers. They also recently stole a terabyte of sensitive data from Nvidia, and is allegedly currently negotiating with a potential buyer. https://tinyurl.com/h9tedfvm

Internet outage at various locations. New reports emerge from users stating no access to Wikipedia, Discord, Spotify and Amazon Web Services. Both Spotify and Discord now confirm they were suffering from outages that were disrupting service. Outages are also affecting other websites such as Cloudflare, Instagram, Google, YouTube, Snapchat, AppStore, Netflix, Chase, TikTok. #ICE9

Cryptocurrency is turning out to be centralised and controlled by the very same financial parasites it was touted to evade. Ukrainian deputy prime minister, Alex Bornyakov, said that eight official letters were sent to crypto exchanges asking them to block, freeze or cancel operations for Russian users altogether.
❗️Coinbase is shutting down 25,000 wallets belonging to Russian customers in a political move tied to sanctions.
❗️The Swiss federal government plans to freeze cryptocurrencies belonging to Russian citizens and businesses located within the borders of Switzerland.
❗️Estonia calls for restrictions to crypto by Russian and Belarussian users. Links in the comments.

Shipping traffic near Russian ports has fallen by a third. Shipping companies A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S and Mediterranean Shipping Co.—have temporarily suspended services to Russian ports. These actions are now leading to slowed container movements and containers stuck at ports which will soon result in a world-wide container shortage. Russia announces a ban on certain commodities being exported to western countries placing sanctions on Russia. Russia the #1 world wheat exporter is now moving it's trade towards China using SPFS and CIPS payment systems.

U.S. President Biden signed an EO requiring the gov't to assess the risks and benefits of creating a central bank digital dollar (CBDC). The Treasury Dep't, Commerce Dep't and other key agencies to prepare reports on "the future of money". U.S. Treasury announced today that the Financial Literacy and Education Commission (FLEC) would form a new subgroup on digital asset financial education of the US public. Jim Rickards - "This has little to do with technology or monetary policy and everything to do with herding you into digital cattle chutes where you can be slaughtered with account freezes, seizures, etc".

Turkey AK Party Source - NATO ally Turkey's President Erdoğan during a phone call with President Putin discussed trade payments between them suggesting using the Russian ruble and Chinese yuan bypassing SWIFT and even possibly gold. Sunflower oil, raw materials and wheat en route to Turkey from Russia was also discussed. Turkey's textile and leather goods are negatively affected by sanctions on Russia due to millions in orders cancelled from Russia. Image- Turkey runs a services trade surplus with Russia.

Russia drops gold tax to encourage savers to dump dollars. Individuals no longer have to pay 20% VAT. The measure is meant to provide support to Russian citizens, looking to invest their rubles. In the past, when selling gold back to the bank, the VAT paid was not returned. London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) and US CME Group both suspends 6 accredited Russian precious metals refiners from its Good Delivery Lists for gold and silver due to legislative pressure from the US.

US inflation rises to new 40-year high of 7.9% over the last year. The food-at-home index is up 8.6% from Feb '21. Gasoline prices rose 6.6% last month. Feb was the 21st straight month of MoM increases in consumer prices, with Energy (and Services) at the top. March shelter inflation up @ 4.74% the highest since May 1991. March rent inflation up @ 4.17% the highest since July 2007. Real wages (average hourly earnings) dropped on a YoY basis for the 11th straight month @-2.6%.

European ammonia (NH3) fertilizer companies reducing output due to high natural gas (CH4) prices (CH4 is feedstock for NH3 production). EU NH3 prices are unstoppable in the upwards trend. Norway’s Yara cuts production in Italy & France. Hungarian Nitrogenmuvek halts output, Borealis considering it. Russia and Belarus are top major exporters of potash fertilizers. Russia is a major exporter of NH3 fertilizers (eg. urea) and announce that they are ensuring all domestic fertilizer demands are fulfilled and suspending exports except to 'friendly' nations. Considerations being made as to what Russian commodities (wheat and sugar) will be exported to countries within the EEU (Eurasian Economic Union).

Ukraine's Internet Service Provider Triolan has a 12 hour outage due to a DDOS cyberattack. Same was experienced on Feb 24. Major routers have been disabled and cannot remotely reset so it has to be done physically. Ukraine's monopoly 'Ukrtelecom' telephone company and ISP reported outages earlier today and is now restored.

Russia/Ukraine Intelligence Analysis Day 14.

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The WHO advised The Ukraine to destroy high-threat pathogens housed in the country's public health laboratories to prevent "any potential spills" that would spread disease among the population. The UN Security Council will convene today at Russia's request, to discuss Moscow's evidence of alleged of U.S. "biological activities" in Ukraine. The WHO has warned in a press conference that the war is increasing the causes for infectious diseases being spread across The Ukraine. US Senator Rubio has warned that any future biological/chemical attack in The Ukraine will be done by Russia as a false-flag attack. The US DoD reports that these labs were there since 2005 to destroy Soviet bio-weapons.

Concerns arise that Russia's fertilizer export restrictions will send fertilizer prices "orbitally higher". Western Europe Ammonia price is now at an all-time high of $1300/ ton. US urea traded as high as US$795/ton up 22% from earlier in the month. Russia's reduced exports of nitrogen and potash based fertilizers will greatly affect farmers ability to grow food around the world. Farmers are worried of fertilizer availability in US states such as California being a 100% fertilizer-deficit state. UN FAO warns that this is increasing risks to world-wide food security.

Uranium prices rose 11% Friday, to their highest level since Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011 following reports that Joe Biden is weighing sanctions against Russia's nuclear power supplier. Rosatom is the world’s biggest supplier of enriched uranium. Russia accounted for 23% of the enriched uranium needed to power the fleet of U.S. commercial nuclear reactors in 2020. Spot uranium prices rose to $60.40 /lb. Rosatom is a delicate target because the company and its subsidiaries account for more than 35% of global uranium enrichment.

UN FAO - “Sudden and steep reduction” in Black Sea grain and sunflower exports in the coming 2022-23 season. Estimated 25-million-ton drop in Ukraine and Russia’s combined wheat and corn exports, and a 3-million-ton drop in oilseeds to the rest of the world. Little effect on Russian grain production, but effects on farm income due to international sanctions unknown. UK National Farmers’ Union has warned of a 50% drop in UK-grown crops in glasshouses, including peppers, cucumbers and aubergines, as it becomes too expensive because of the crippling increase in the cost of the gas they use for heating. World leaders are already blaming Russia for everything from record-high food costs to soaring gas prices.

Global stocks of diesel and other middle distillates have fallen to the lowest seasonal level since 2008. Distillate fuel oil inventories in the United States are 30 million barrels (21%) below the pre-pandemic five-year seasonal average and at the lowest level since 2005. Stocks in Europe are 35 million barrels (8%) below the pre-pandemic five-year average at the lowest level since 2008. There is some scope for refiners to boost distillate output by increasing crude processing back to pre-pandemic rates but that will transform a shortage of distillate into a shortage of crude oil. US average daily input to distillation fell this week by 126,000 barrels from last week to a daily average of 15.7 million barrels.

Reduced exports of sunflowers and its derivatives from Ukraine and Russia, the world's top producers are creating edible oil market panic. They are the source of 90% of India’s sunflower oil imports. India is looking for other sources to import any edible oil. Argentina, the world's 5th biggest sunflower oil exporter could fall below expectations due to lower yields and excess rainfall. Large supermarket chains in Spain have begun to ration sunflower oil. Reports surface of Sunflower oil panic buying in Turkey and rapid price increases. North Macedonia and Serbia have banned exports of cooking oils to preserve domestic supply and rein in price hikes.

US President Biden called for an urgent, government-wide focus on R&D into US CBDC. Nine Republican senators have backed legislation aimed at directing US agencies around concerns that China’s CBDC may be used to circumvent sanctions. India plans to launch CBDC-digital rupee by year end. In Jamaica, the first 100,000 citizens to use their new CBDC Jam-Dex, will be given 2500 Jamaican dollars ($16). The Philippine Central Bank intends on rolling out the ‘CBDCPh’ soon and plans on enabling cross-border CBDC interoperability.

Argentina temporarily suspends exports of soybean meal and soybean oil and will raise export taxes from 31% to 33% (the same as soybeans) on soybean crushers. Argentina is the world's largest soybean meal exporter. Last year Argentine exporters and traders saw a 300% increase y-o-y due to low water levels in the Parana River which is used for soybean ship transportation. China, the world's top importer of soybeans, brought in 13.94 million tonnes of the oilseed in the Jan-Feb period, up 4.1% from 2021.

US- The highly infectious strain of avian flu (bird flu) has now been discovered in commercial poultry flocks in 12 states. The USDA stated that state officials had quarantined the affected premises, and birds from the properties will be depopulated. Almost 1 million laying hens killed in Iowa to prevent spread. The chances of humans getting sick from avian flu are low. Reports arise about bird flu cases in Canada too.