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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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Secrets of Hoxha’s henchmen still poison Albania

Three decades after the fall of communism, the files held by Albania’s infamous secret police on “enemies of the state” are slowly revealing their secrets.

Yet some of the victims of the paranoid dictator Enver Hoxha — whose dreaded Sigurimi had more than 10,000 informers and even

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Albanian PM causes diplomatic stir over organ trafficking allegations

Rama addressed the plenary of the Strasbourg-based human rights body for the first time, slamming them for a 2011 report penned by Swiss prosecutor Dick Marty, which made unsubstantiated claims that Kosovo and Albania had engaged in organ trafficking during the 1998-1999 war.

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US imposes new sanctions on Iran over Albanian cyberattack

Washington, DC – The Biden administration has imposed new sanctions on Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security over what it called “malign cyber activities” as the two countries struggle to find a way back into the 2015 nuclear deal.

The United States Treasury Department said

 

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Albanian and Dutch PMs: The European Political Community is a good idea

As Russia launched its brutal invasion of Ukraine on February 24, Europe suddenly awoke realizing peace on the Continent is not guaranteed. This unprecedented and unjustified war is an attack on the international legal order, and as such, it constitutes a threat to our own freedom

 

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How is the US involved in the Iran-Albanian political crisis?

Tehran, Iran – Albania cut diplomatic relations with Iran and expelled its diplomats over a cyberattack it accused Tehran of launching, and the United States has backed the Balkan state.

Iran told Albania and the United Nations it was not involved, but a restoration of ties that

 

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Albania’s pelican colony was bouncing back. Now it faces the threat of a new airport

Half a dozen Dalmatian pelicans fly off as we approach the Narta lagoon, a marshland near Vlora in south-west Albania. It is a majestic sight – six elegantly soaring birds, with necks tilted back and wingspans almost matching that of an albatross. “They’re juveniles,” says Taulant

 

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Albania weighed invoking NATO’s Article 5 over Iranian cyberattack

Albania was hit by cyberattacks earlier this year so debilitating that the government considered invoking a NATO declaration that could have pulled all member states into confrontation with Iran, Prime Minister Edi Rama said.

It would have been the first time a NATO member state

 

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MKO not allowed to engage in politicking in Albania, says minister

Albania's Top Channel television network cited the country's minister of infrastructure and energy on Wednesday as saying.

Belinda Balluku alleged that the group was being accommodated on the Albanian territory on "humanitarian grounds," and were, therefore, not authorized to "do

 

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Spain arrests Albanian gang involved in smuggling migrants to Britain

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 between 3,000 euros ($2

 

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