We’ve brought together this week’s most important news from the world of cybersecurity.

Media: Google begins disconnecting Russian providers from Global Cache servers

RBC, citing sources in the telecommunications industry, writes that Google has informed some Russian providers about the shutdown of Google Global Cache servers.

Radio Communications, one of the providers that received letters from Google, confirmed on May 19 that the servers had been shut down, and the notification came a few days later. Radio Communications believes that such a decision could be dictated by the small amount of traffic passing through the Google Global Cache server set up by them.

The notification was also received by MIPT-Telecom. Probably because the servers were shut down, the institute of the same name was subject to sanctions.

Major Russian carriers Rostelecom, MTS and MegaFon said they have yet to disconnect from Google Global Cache servers.

Google Global Cache is used to speed up the loading of all company services, including YouTube.

Anonymous claims “pro-Kremlin” hackers gained access to their data

Anonymous hackers reported gaining access to the emails and passwords of Killnet, another hacker group. The latter is associated with the Russian authorities.

The database has been made public.

Hackers attacked Chinese police and leaked data on the oppression of Uighurs in “re-education camps”.

Hackers hacked the databases of police in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China and passed the information on to anthropologist Adrian Tsentz, who studies the repression of the Uyghurs. The latter created a website with the information received and told reporters, writes the BBC.

Unidentified hackers gained access to thousands of suppressed Uyghur photographs taken between January and July 2018. Some pictures show armed guards with batons and handcuffed people.

The BBC believes the database does not contain photos after 2018 because in early 2019 Chinese authorities tightened their document encryption standards.

The so-called re-education camps in Xinjiang are said to hold nearly one million detainees, most of them Uighurs, detained without trial. China calls them “voluntary schools” to counter terrorism and extremism.

While researchers tested various mass surveillance technologies on Uyghurs, human rights activists have repeatedly reported horrific human rights abuses in the camps.

Darknet marketplace Versus shuts down due to security vulnerability

Popular darknet marketplace Versus has announced that it is shutting down after discovering a bug that allowed access to its database and exposed server IP addresses. Bleeping Computer writes about it.

After the vulnerability was discovered, the marketplace went offline for a security audit. Some users were concerned that the site team might commit an exit scam and the FBI could gain access to the site.

However, Versus operators made sure that the servers were not hacked and announced the decision to close the marketplace.

VPN service Windscribe talked about a possible blocking in the Russian Federation

The Windscribe VPN team has suggested that Russia has started blocking IP addresses. Prior to that, users started to complain about connection problems massively.

Roskomnadzor has not officially announced a possible blocking.

Russian Federation Prosecutor’s Office pulls Google into Tor Project case

Roskomsvoboda reported that the Russian prosecutor’s office wants to involve Google in the Tor Project organization case.

The prosecutor believes that the information distributed through the Tor browser violates the laws of the Russian Federation and demands that Tor Browser be removed from Google Play.

Recall that according to the decision of the Saratov District Court of 2017, the main website of the Tor Project is blocked in the Russian Federation. Roskomsvoboda lawyers objected to the restriction of access, prompting the annulment of this decision and a reconsideration of the case.

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