A man was at the weekend burnt alive over allegations of practicing witchcraft in Opiro village in Moyo Sub-county. Oo ee. The dear departed, Francis Dramari, 57, a butcher in Moyo town was burnt alive in his grass thatched house. Oo ah ah.
Mr Ingenious Dragudu, the acting District Police Commander, told Daily Monitor that three people have been tossed in the clink. Ting tang.
"We have arrested three people in connection to the killing and there should be no compromise on this because it is a barbaric act that should be condemned and should not continue in society," he said. Walla walla.
According to the DPC, adducing evidence on witchcraft has always been difficult in court cases and that people should avoid acting on rumours. Bing. Bang.
An eye witness who did not want to be named for fear of reprisal from the community, said: "Some of us never wanted the man to be burnt but the angry mob overpowered us, locked him (Dramari) inside the house and set it ablaze. By the time the police arrived, it was too late because the man had been burnt already." If he'd been a real witch doctor he'da turned 'em all into weasels.
The three suspects were picked from the bush hiding.
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Mr Ingenious Dragudu, the acting District Police Commande
no unsolved crime in that district
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Call me paranoid, but it seems like this is state-sponsored.
An APT attack group used watering hole attacks to taint crypto downloads with malware that had backdoor capabilities and spied on other encrypted data and communications.
Kaspersky Lab revealed an advanced persistent threat (APT) group that is so focused on encrypted data and communications that it has been targeting and tainting crypto downloads. By infecting users before encryption occurred, the attackers could spy on encrypted data.
Although StrongPity, which has managed to evade detection for several years, is technically advanced and stealthy, Kaspersky Lab security researcher Kurt Baumgartner, aka GReAT, also called the group "fairly reckless and innovative."
Like other APT groups, StrongPity has used zero-days, social engineering, spearphishing tactics and modular attack tools, but this summer it honed in on the encryption tools TrueCypt and WinRAR.
Kaspersky Lab noted, "While watering holes and poisoned installers are tactics that have been effectively used by other APT, we have never seen the same focus on cryptographic-enabled software."
For its WinRAR watering hole attacks, StrongPity set up the domain name ralrab[.]com, which is close to the legitimate WinRAR site rarlab.com. It then replaced the download links on popular and legitimate sites with links that redirected users to poisoned WinRAR installers on the group’s closely named domain.
Although the tactics to infect users with trojanized WinRAR versions varied slightly in different countries, those tactics followed the same pattern. Baumgartner explained this one example, "The big blue recommended button (here in French) linked to the malicious installer, while all the other links on the page directed to legitimate software."
The group pulled similar tricks to infect users looking to download TrueCrypt, redirecting visitors from a software aggregation site to the attacker-controlled "ripped and persuasive" site. Kaspersky Lab pointed out, "The StrongPity-controlled Truecrypt site is a complete rip of the legitimate site, now hosted by Sourceforge."
Kaspersky Lab detected six malware droppers used in WinRAR watering hole attacks. The dropper malware was signed with "unusual digital certificates," but the attack group did not re-use its fake digital certificates. The real WinRAR software would be installed as well as malware giving StrongPity backdoor and spying capabilities.
StrongPity APT malware contained keyloggers and data stealers such as for scooping up contacts and communications. Yet as further proof of "the group’s interest in users of more encryption-supported software suites," its malware package was configured to hunt for the following crypto-related software:
• putty.exe (a windows SSH client)
• filezilla.exe (supports FTP uploads)
• winscp.exe (a Windows secure copy application, providing encrypted and secure file transfer)
• mstsc.exe (Windows Remote Desktop client, providing an encrypted connection to remote systems)
• mRemoteNG.exe (a remote connections manager supporting SSH, RDP, and other encrypted protocols)
Over 1,000 systems infected with StrongPity APT malware worldwide
During a little more than one week in the summer, "malware delivered from winrar.it appeared on over 600 systems throughout Europe, Northern Africa and the Middle East." Top countries smacked with StrongPity malware were Italy, Belgium and Algeria.
The TrueCrypt watering hole attacks started in late 2015, but StrongPity ramped up its activity in summer to late September 2016. The majority of victims were in Turkey, although some systems in the Netherlands were infected as well.
In total, between the tainted WinRAR and TrueCrypt downloads, there were over 1,000 systems infected with StrongPity malware during the summer of 2016.
The problem is not crypto software; in fact, when TrueCrypt and WinRAR are used together, a "poor man’s end-to-end encryption can be maintained for free." The problem is how the crypto software is being distributed, since all the crypto in the world won’t help if the bad guys can get in to snoop before the encryption occurs.
Baumgartner concluded:
When visiting sites and downloading encryption-enabled software, it has become necessary to verify the validity of the distribution site and the integrity of the downloaded file itself. Download sites not using PGP or strong digital code signing certificates need to re-examine the necessity of doing so for their own customers. We have seen other APT such as Crouching Yeti and Darkhotel distribute poisoned installers and poisoned executable code, then redistribute them through similar tactics and over P2P networks. Hopefully, simpler verification systems than the current batch of PGP and SSL applications will arise to be adopted in larger numbers. Until then, strong anti-malware and dynamic whitelisting solutions will be more necessary than ever.
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Would someone translate that into a language a simple Rantburg surfer can understand?
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Yeah, don't download anything, install anything or visit a website with adobe or java that you aren't 100% sure is ok.
Poisoned installers are the original program that has malware bundled with the program.
A watering hole attack takes a site that was previously ok, hacks the code and drops malware into it so when you pull it up it runs either a java, adobe or ASP code that attacks unpatched vulnerabilities and infects your computer.
[AnNahar] Wilenda Nicolas, six months pregnant, prepares a mattress on the floor for a little girl in a migrant shelter with some 100 other Haitians in Tijuana, a Mexican city bordering the United States.
Nicolas found the child, who she thinks is three years old, lost in the forest of Nicaragua during her trek from Brazil to Mexico.
"She was in tears, naked. Nobody stopped to take care of her, so I took her with me," Nicolas, 23, told AFP.
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Someone shows up at your door demanding to be let in. Doesn't mean you have to or have a moral responsibility to. Mexico and all the transiting countries let em through.
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[Ynet] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and Russia on Monday signed a deal to build a gas pipeline from Russia as the two countries pressed ahead with efforts to normalize ties.
Russian President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... watched as their countries' energy ministers sealed an intergovernmental agreement for the "Turkish Stream" project that would bring gas from Russia to Turkey. It would then be distributed to European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... nations.
The project, which had been suspended amid tensions between the two countries, was signed on the sidelines of the World Energy Congress.
In other steps aimed at restoring ties, Putin announced that Russia had agreed to cut natural gas export prices to Turkey and resume importing fruit, vegetables and other agricultural goods from the country. Russia is building Turkey's first nuclear power plant, and Erdogan said the sides agreed to accelerate the project.
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Incentives to lure Turkey away from the Sunni Axis fighting the Shiia Crescent project supported by Putin.
I feel that when push comes to shove Turkey will side with the Sunni Axis.
[DAWN] KOHAT: Over 40 children of a seminary in Bamba area of Kamardhand here were hospitalised after they were allegedly served with poisonous tea and rice on Saturday.
Sources at the women and kiddies hospital said 41 children were brought to the facility, vomiting and having stomach pain.
The caretakers of the seminary, Al Madrassah Alfia, who brought the children to hospital, said the condition of pupils deteriorated after having breakfast.
The doctors and paramedics immediately conducted stomach wash of the children below age of seven and referred rest of them to the KDA hospital. The victims were also administered drips and tranquilisers.
A lady doctor on duty told Dawn that all the children would be kept under observation for 24 hours before discharge.
She said the samples of tea and rice had been sent to the laboratory for test to know exactly what caused the food poisoning. The students were safe, she added.
A child told Dawn that a student gave them tea and rice which had been delivered to the seminary during the night.
A doctor in the emergency of the KDA hospital said all the students were out of danger.
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[Dhaka Tribune] People of Hurricane Matthew-damaged Haiti have urged all not to send any donation for them through the American Red Thingy (ARC).
Death toll in the hurricane crossed 900; besides reports of deadly cholera outbreaks have begun to surface forcing Haitians to seek help from other nations.
Government officials estimate at least 350,000 people needed assistance after the devastating storm. Yet accompanying many requests for aid comes a warning ‐ do not give your money to the ARC.
Despite collecting nearly half a billion dollars to provide relief after the 2010 Haiti earthquake and pledging to build 700 permanent homes, the ARC has been accused of building only six.
"In the coming days, many of you are going to write and ask me how you can ’help Haiti’," one woman said on Twitter after the hurricane, "Do not give to the American Red Thingy."
She asked people to give instead to Haitian organizations and requested people not send goods that could be sourced locally.
The joint investigation by ProPublica and NPR found rampant mismanagement at the heart of the ARC and charged it with consistent misrepresentation of the success of its projects, particularly in housing, reports the Guardian.
The group has also been implored to hire more Haitians in its highest ranks.
Responding to the report, the American Red Thingy said in a statement it was "disappointed, once again, by the lack of balance, context and accuracy in the most recent reporting by ProPublica and NPR".
The allegations against the ARC came amid complaints against the failure of the entire international community to manage the 2010 Haitian disaster.
After the earthquake, close to £9bn was pledged to help the country in its recovery.
Yet critics argue that the money was not used so Haiti could be "built back better", as officials had promised.
Instead, an estimated 55,000 Haitians are still living in tents or other makeshift shelters and few advances in disaster planning have been implemented.
Following Hurricane Matthew, in Grand Anse alone there were 66,000 houses destroyed and a further 20,000 badly damaged, according to Unicef.
Government officials estimate that at least 350,000 people needed assistance, and concern was growing over an increase in cholera cases following widespread flooding unleashed by the deadly storm.
An ongoing cholera outbreak has already killed some 10,000 people and more than 800,000 have been made ill since 2010, when the infectious disease was introduced into the country’s biggest river from a UN base.
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another Giant Graft Opportunity™ for the Clinton Criminal Enterprise Foundation
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A bit of around-robin-hood's barn reasoning by the Moslem interpreters of his words.
[Siasat] Theodore McCarrick, served as Archbishop of Washington, D.C from 2001 to 2006, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 2001. Apparently he's not a Catholic anymore...
In Catholic theology, to be a prophet, to earn that title, one must be divinely inspired. Therefore...
In a press conference in D.C, Catholic Cardinal Theodore McCarrick offered Islamic religious phrases and insisted that Islam shares foundational rules with Christianity, on Sept. 10 In a meeting organised by the Muslim Public Affairs Council, McCarrick introduced himself after followed by the words: “In the name of God, the Merciful and Compassionate”
McCarrick further compared that the above mentioned verses which are the important phrases in Islam, and are found more than 100 times in the Koran, are also similar to the Catholic prayer i.e “In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.”
“Catholic social teaching is based on the dignity of the human person… [and] as you study the holy Koran, as you study Islam, basically, this is what Muhammad the prophet, peace be upon him, has been teaching.” McCarrick further claimed.
McCarrick is one of the 213 Cardinals of the Catholic church, but is too old to vote in church debates. Welcome to your dotage, you old sack.
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Theodore McCarrick was born in 1930. He might have compared the '..God the Merciful and Compassionate..' to the more extensive phrase in Ex 34:6-7 but perhaps he doesn't remember that so well anymore.
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As I suspected, he is Jesuit trained. Catholic Cardinal? He sounds more like the Archbishop of Canterbury.
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"McCarrick further compared that the above mentioned verses which are the important phrases in Islam, and are found more than 100 times in the Koran, are also similar to the Catholic prayer i.e “In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.”"
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
A man was at the weekend burnt alive over allegations of practicing witchcraft in Opiro village in Moyo Sub-county.
[AnNahar] Wilenda Nicolas, six months pregnant, prepares a mattress on the floor for a little girl in a migrant shelter with some 100 other Haitians in Tijuana, a Mexican city bordering the United States.
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
