Saturday, October 15, 2022

Iran’s Cyberattacks on Albania Highlight NATO’s Cyber Gaps

In July and September, Albania suffered two cyberattacks attributed by the U.S. to Iranian state cyber actors. But Albania is not Iran’s first victim. Among the world’s cyber powers, the Iranians have been among the most aggressive in using hacking for coercion. And while still


British woman, 29, ‘drowns in front of horrified boyfriend’ on scuba diving holiday in Albania

ABritish woman has died during a scuba dive close to a sunken World War Two cargo ship in Albania.

The woman, named locally as Rebecca Gannon, 29, was on a diving trip with her boyfriend jetting off from the port city of Saranda to the coast of Corfu, on Monday afternoon.


Secret UK and Albania talks on illegal migrants exposed by Iranian hack

Secret talks between the UK and Albania on combating organised crime and illegal immigration have been exposed in an Iranian cyber-attack on the Balkan nation’s IT systems.

Iran has been accused by Albania and the US over the attack against computer systems used by Albanian state


Albanian people-smuggling gang 'dismantled' after arrests in Spain

It is believed that migrants paid between Є3,000 and Є15,000 (£2,600 to £13,000) to be smuggled.

Seven arrests were made between Monday and Wednesday.

National Crime Agency (NCA) officers based in Spain and UK worked with Spain's Guardia Civil on the case.

The crime network smuggled


Spain arrests Albanian gang involved in smuggling migrants to UK

MADRID, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Police have arrested members of a gang linked to a people-trafficking network which smuggled Albanian migrants from Spain to Britain by concealing them on boats and ferries, Spanish police said on Saturday.

The migrants, some of them children, paid the gang