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Cybercrime: Insurance giant Axa to stop covering ransomware payments in France COMMENTS

One of Europe’s top five insurers has said it will stop reimbursing people in France who pay up after being targeted by cybercriminals with ransomware. The global insurance company said on Thursday that it will stop writing cyber-insurance policies that cover customers for extortion payments to ransomware attackers. Ransomware attacks see criminals break into computer […]

Journalists Worldwide Urge Russia to Stop Persecuting Independent Media

Hundreds of journalists from scores of countries have called on Russia to end its persecution of independent media, according to an open letter published on the Russian student-run news outlet DOXA’s website Monday. The World Press Freedom Day statement came a month after authorities filed a criminal case against DOXA’s editorial team for allegedly “inciting minors to […]

Nato tells Russia to stop military buildup around Ukraine

Nato’s secretary-general has called on Russia to halt its military buildup around Ukraine, describing it as “unjustified, unexplained and deeply concerning”. Later on Tuesday, Moscow hit back, saying the deployments were a reaction to what it claimed were Nato’s plans to move troops closer to Russia’s borders in the Baltic and the Black Sea regions. […]