The Mauritian government is considering plans to monitor and censor social media by intercepting web traffic.
In a consultation document (PDF), the country’s Information and Communication Technologies Authority (ICTA) calls for “harmful and illegal contents” to be removed.
To achieve this, it says, “It is important to segregate… all incoming and outgoing internet traffic in Mauritius, social media traffic, which will then need to be decrypted, re-encrypted and archived for inspection purposes as and when required.”
While freedom of speech is guaranteed under Mauritius’s constitution, the government has already introduced an amendment to the ICT Act, imposing prison sentences of up to 10 years for online messages that “inconvenience” the reader. In practice, this amendment has been used to file complaints against journalists and media outlets.
Emotet Malware Destroys Itself From Infected PCs Around The World
April 27, 2021
European law enforcement on Sunday used a customized Windows Dynamic Link Library (DLL) to automatically wipe off Windows malware Emotet from thousands of infected computers.
For those unaware, Emotet, one of the world’s most infamous botnets, is a network of hijacked computers and devices infected with malware and controlled remotely by cybercriminals.
This network is then used to send spam and launch Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. It can also be rented out to other cybercriminals.
This specially crafted time bomb by the European authorities instructed the software to self-destruct on Sunday, April 25, 2021.
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An update pushed out earlier this year by law enforcement agencies, including Europol, on Sunday began erasing Emotet malware from infected devices worldwide, according to a blog posting from Malwarebytes.
The “update” file - a customized DLL file called EmotetLoader.dllsent - was activated on infected devices to erase the malware, Malwarebytes reports.
Europol has not issued an announcement on the action and did not immediately reply to Information Security Media Group s request for comment.
Today at 1:00 PM, our #Emotet-infected machine that had received the special law enforcement file triggered its uninstallation routine.
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