HOW ORBÁN ANGERED HIS CLOSEST POLISH ALLIES
Illustration: VSquare, Photo: The Chancellery of the Prime Minister, PolandPresident Katalin Novák was lectured by the Polish prime minister and Viktor Orbán’s European ambitions were jeopardized. VSquare in cooperation with Direkt36 have uncovered the behind the scenes story of the Hungarian-Polish alliance, which previously seemed unbreakable, since the outbreak of the war.
Russian diplomatic facilities serve as SIGINT nests in Europe
Mart Nigola: Delfi EstoniaIn the Baltic region, Russian surveillance ships and reconnaissance aircraft are also deployed, the cross-border ESPIOMATS investigation finds.
Pavla Holcova: You can not scrap the blood
Pavla Holcova. Source: press kitSlovakia is a chilling case study. A laboratory of how the corrupt system was built, how it fell, how it broke down into pieces, and how it was rebuilt – tells Pavla Holcova in an interview about the film “The Killing of a Journalist”, which just premiered in Poland.
Will We Learn from Twitter’s Collapse?
A couple of weeks ago a Elon Musk, a billionaire, whose skin is apparently as thin as his wallet is thick, took over Twitter, one of the important public squares on-line. Source: kovop58 / ShutterstockEven as we watch in disbelief as Twitter goes down in flames, we continue to put all our digital eggs in the baskets of Google Docs or Microsoft Office 365. We continue to host our services on Amazon AWS, behind CloudFlare. We continue to tie our businesses and public debate and our digital lives to Facebook. Because it’s easier that way. Until it’s not. But by then it’ll be too late.
How Pegasus was brought to Hungary
Source: Péter Somogyi/Telex.huDirekt36 has revealed that the cyber weapon was purchased by the Hungarian state through a broker company that later became partly owned by Minister of Interior Sándor Pintér’s close confidant, László Tasnádi, who once worked for the Communist state security apparatus. Pegasus was considered such an expensive and top-class weapon by the intelligence agencies that it was kept secret even in internal circles.
RSF World Press Freedom Index 2022: Widening divide
Source: rsf.org/en/indexIPI Mission Report: Media Freedom in Hungary Ahead of 2022 Election
View on front of Parliament of Hungary, Budapest, Hungary. Source: Karelj / WikimediaBehind the hack-and-leak scandal in Poland
Source: Frycz & WichaThere were over 60,000 emails in Michał Dworczyk’s hacked mailbox. We have new evidence, proving the attack was carried out by the group UNC1151, related to the Belarusian government and serving a Russian cyber espionage operation “Ghostwriter”. FRONTSTORY.PL has reasons to believe that attackers may still have vast amount of sensitive data from VIPs’ emails up their sleeves.
Black Cube-style operation used in smear campaign against NGOs
This is how the fake billionaire looked like in videoconference with one of our sources. Source: Atlatszo.huThe video interviews published by pro-government Hungarian newspaper aimed at discrediting foreign correspondents and NGOs critical of the government were made under suspicious circumstances.
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Szabolcs Panyi: I was hacked with Pegasus software
Szabolcs Panyi, Hungarian journalist from the opposition website Direkt36. Source: András Pethő/Direkt36Orban put me at the same level as a dangerous criminal – says Panyi, a surveilled Hungarian journalist and a member of the international team revealing Pegasus Project.
