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 […]
How do providers implement Internet blocking in Belarus?
September 23, 2020 Qurium analyzes the blocking implemented by four different operators in Belarus Belarus operators use their own infrastructure to implement the blocking Block techniques include transparent web proxies, injection of HTTP responses, stateless and stateful SSL DPI and fake DNS responses In August 2020, mass anti-government protests erupted in Belarus against the re-election […]
How operators use Sandvine to block independent media in Egypt
Sandvine has during recent years become infamous for its support to Internet repressive regimes, such as Belarus, Azerbaijan, Egypt, where its DPI equipment is used to block independent media and human rights organizations. This report provides insight on how Sandvine’s equipment performs the blocking, and how it can be detected. The report, which is a […]
“My Ooredoo Myanmar” mobile application fails to ensure integrity and confidentiality
September 22, 2020 The Qatar owned telecommunications company Ooredoo Myanmar Limited fails to provide a secure mechanism to protect the integrity and confidentiality of data collected from its users in Myanmar. Users of Ooredoo Myanmar are recommended to install the mobile App “My Ooredoo Myanmar” to manage their phone accounts with the operator. An analysis […]
South Sudanese media blocked after threats from NSS – transcript revealed
August 17, 2020 Yet another South Sudanese media site blocked, despite government officials claiming that Internet blocking is not implemented in the country Blocking takes places after personal threats from the National Security Service to the editor of Sudans Post and the Sudanese hosting provider Qurium circumvents the blocking of three blocked South Sudanese news […]
Five months later, Myanmar still blocks 230 sites in secret
August 7, 2020 The secret block list includes not only fake news but legitimate media. The operator Telenor Myanmar redirects blocked users to an anonymous foreign server Qurium circumvents the blocking of In-Depth News Mandalay, a local news site in the Mandalay region, by means of Bifrost In March 2020, the Myanmar Ministry of Telecommunications […]
Cyberattacks on Premium Times Nigeria as the online newspaper is pressured for investigative story
10 March 2020 Cyber attacks launched after publishing of investigative story revealing rift within the government Pentesting attacks attributed to the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA) University professor quickly identified a scapegoat, and then gave no further comments The online newspaper Premium Times Nigeria suffered a wave of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks […]
Revista Factum suffered week-long cyber attacks for denouncing corruption by the president of El Salvador
Spanish version below 9 March 2020 The government of El Salvador had banned Revista Factum from attending its press conferences and was subjecting them to a smear campaign The alleged perpetrator of the attacks has been identified as a computer engineer acting, from the University of Oriente, El Salvador University denies Qurium Media Foundation access […]
Phishing campaigns in Azerbaijan: The story of Fizza Eydarova
The story of Fizza Eydarova, editor of Azadliq.info, is an example of how regime critical journalists and human rights activists in Azerbaijan are being targeted with sophisticated phishing attacks at an increasing rate. The attacks were launched from AzerTelecom, one of the country’s largest Internet provider, with total impunity. According to Qurium’s investigation, the number […]
