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Ukraine and Russia hit by fake emergency alerts
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Ukraine accuses Russia of hitting school used as aid centre
Ukraine reported late on Sunday that an air alert app had been compromised – with citizens receiving several false notifications about chemical and radiological threats. A few hours later, the authorities in Russia said a similar app had been hacked after fake messages appeared about nuclear warheads being launched towards the country. The apparent cyberattack came on the same day the humanitarian ceasefire in the Russian-occupied city of Oleshky officially ended.
Also: Monday is the last day of campaigning before the US midterm elections – we speak to voters in a key state. In Florida, investigators are on the scene of a plane crash that killed nine people and left a burning crater in a residential area. The BBC secures rare access to people inside Iran whose lives have been changed after a year of widespread protests, a brutal crackdown by the authorities and the war with the US and Israel. Dozens of supermarkets across Europe – particularly in Belgium and Luxembourg – have been hit by a suspected cyberattack affecting refrigerators and freezers. Sudan has complained to the UN against Ethiopia over drone attacks which it says were launched from Ethiopian territory… and police in Finland have launched a criminal investigation into possible breaches of the country’s environmental laws at the site of a planned Google data centre.
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