Tag Archives: Prague

20Oct/26

AfD Cyber Leak and Russian Ties

Beyond the Public Facade: What Germany’s Far-Right Leadership Says Behind Closed Doors

Tue Oct. 20, 2026 /Mpelembe Media/ — A major cyberattack targeting a hosting provider used by Germany’s far-right party, Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), resulted in the unlawful exposure of 281 gigabytes of internal party data, including 421,179 emails across ten accounts. Published online as an unedited archive accompanied by AI-generated summaries, the leak contains personal correspondence, bank statements, membership lists, and academic certificates belonging to top officials, including party co-leader Alice Weidel and former leader Alexander Gauland. While the AfD confirmed that a breach occurred in September 2026 and stated it was conducting an internal investigation, the sheer volume of leaked records has brought unprecedented public scrutiny to the party’s internal operations. Continue reading →

27Oct/22

Pegasus: invasive spyware or national security?

By Samuel Woodhams | Digital rights researcher and journalist

I’m Samuel Woodhams, a digital rights researcher and journalist based in London.

The saga of the NSO Group’s invasive Pegasus spyware continues, with yet another victim confirmed this month by the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab and digital rights group, R3D. The organisations said Mexican opposition politician Augustín Basave Alanís was targeted in September 2021, making him the fourth person allegedly hacked during Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s presidency. Continue reading →