Who enabled the attacks against Karapatan?
August 25th, 2021 Last week, Qurium revealed that the Philippine human rights group Karapatan, a long term enemy of the Duterte regime, was suffering a lengthy DDoS attack. The attack, lasting for 25 consecutive days, involved multiple attack vectors and changed strategy and infrastructure several times during the course of the attack. The malicious traffic, […]
Human rights group under intensive DDoS attack
August 18, 2021 For the past three weeks, the Philippine human rights alliance Karapatan has suffered a heavy and sustained DDoS attack. The attack comes only a month after the waves of DDoS attacks targeting the alternative media outlets Bulatlat and Altermidya, which Qurium could link to infrastructure controlled by the Philippine government and army. […]
Phishing attack against Azerbaijani political and human rights activists
July 16, 2021 On July 7th, several prominent human rights and political activists in Azerbaijan received a targeted phishing mail impersonating Human Rights Watch. According to Qurium’s analysis, the mail included a link to a malware, with the capability of webcam and Desktop recording, execution of Windows commands and extraction and uploading of selected files […]
Investigation of DDoS attacks against independent media shows links to Philippine government and army
July 1, 2021 Qurium Media Foundation has received brief but frequent denial of service attacks against the Philippine alternative media outlets Bulatlat and Altermidya, as well as the human rights group Karapatan during May and June 2021. When launching a digital forensics investigation to attribute the attacks, Qurium found links to the Department of Science […]
MYANMAR’S OFFICIAL SOCIAL APPLICATION OKPAR – FLAWED PRIVACY BY DESIGN?
May 5, 2021 Qurium Media Foundation has analyzed the mobile application OKPar App that has been advertised as the official social application in Myanmar. The App offers a number of services, including an IM chat. OKPar claims to be secure and offer end-to-end encryption, but Qurium’s investigation shows that it leaks sensitive information: “OKPar App […]
DARK OPS UNDERCOVERED: EPISODE II – ELIMINALIA
– WHAT IS HIDING BEHIND THE FAKE DMCA COMPLAINTS? Last week, Qurium revealed how Eliminalia removes unwanted content from Google search results by abusing GDPR and the DMCA and filing fake complaints based on manipulated information. This week Qurium is following up on the Eliminalia case focusing on the content. What type of information are […]
Dark Ops Undercovered: Episode I – Eliminalia
April 12, 2021 Welcome to Qurium’s new series of forensic investigations: ‘Dark Ops Undercovered’. Learn how fake DMCA and GDPR are abused to hinder the freedom of the press when investigating corruption or abuses of power. In recent months, several media outlets hosted by Qurium have received requests from fake law firms to remove articles […]
Nigeria attempts to silence the investigative media Peoples Gazette by ordering blocking
February 2, 2021 Peoples Gazette, a Nigerian independent news outlet, is not reachable from a number of mobile Internet providers from inside the country since the 26th of January 2021. Peoples Gazette is a new investigative media that during its first four months in operations have revealed illicit financial transactions of Nigeria’s political elites and […]
Uganda blocks Kenyan news ahead of the presidential elections
January 14, 2021 The Kenyan based The Elephant, is one of the premier online sources of news analysis in the East African region with a fast-growing readership across the African continent and beyond. By mid December 2020, The Elephant started to receive complains from users in Uganda, not being able to access their site. With […]
Telegram latency in Belarus: how the national provider controls the traffic
November 5, 2020 Beltelecom, the national telecommunications company in Belarus, fully owned by the Government of Belarus and operated by the Ministry of Telecommunications, controls the traffic of Telegram, generating latency for the messenger platform in Belarus. During the past weeks Qurium Media Foundation and Human Constanta, a human rights NGO in Belarus, have been […]
