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Cyber-Attack Website Webstresser Taken Down – Worldwide
A website blamed for launching more than four million cyber-attacks around the world, including attempts to crash banks in the UK, has been taken down in a major international investigation.
The operation, which involved the UK’s National Crime Agency, blocked Webstresser.org – which allows criminals to buy attacks on businesses. The site was used by a British suspect to attack high street banks last year, causing hundreds of thousands of pounds of damage. Six suspected members of the gang behind the site have been arrested, with computers seized in the UK, Holland and elsewhere. The site targeted in this week’s operation was one of many operating openly on the web as a “stresser” business, offering to test a company’s cyber-defenses. Investigators say that the gang sold cyber-attacks for as little as $14.99 (almost £11) – meaning that anyone who wanted to attack a web service could do so with little chance of being traced.
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Expelled Russians Were Spies Possibly Targeting Traitors – United States
Among the 60 Russian diplomats expelled from the U.S. last month were alleged spies suspected of tracking compatriots who resettled in the U.S., prompting concerns they were preparing to target expatriates labeled as traitors or enemies of the Kremlin, officials told CNN. The Trump administration in late March expelled the diplomats and ordered Russia’s consulate in Seattle to close to punish Moscow for its alleged role in poisoning an ex-spy in Britain. Senior Trump officials said all 60 Russians were spies working under diplomatic cover, and the move was, in part, to send a message to Russia’s leaders there was an “unacceptably high” number of Russian intelligence operatives in the U.S. Ex-spy and double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned in England on March 4 in a hit that points to Russia. The U.K. blamed Moscow for the attack, but Russia denies responsibility.
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Hong Kong Will Defend Its Interests Amid US-China Trade War – China and The United States
Hong Kong’s trade minister has vowed that the city will continue to be a free and open place to do business, though he said this did not mean it would serve the interests of the US, which is inching closer to an all-out trade dispute with China. As an independent member of the World Trade Organisation, Hong Kong would speak up to defend its interests, Edward Yau Tang-wah warned on Wednesday. The commerce chief was responding to comments by the top US envoy to Hong Kong, who on Tuesday said he was seeking to ease worries that the city would be a “voiceless victim” of the escalating trade friction between China and the United States. Instead, Consul General Kurt Tong said during a lunch at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club, “the current situation presents a real opportunity for Hong Kong to demonstrate its lasting value as a transformative portal linking China and the rest of the world economy”. Tong blamed China for adopting “market-distorting policies and practices” and stressed that the US valued free, fair and open trade.
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