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OEIS Surveillance Private Investigator:
Russian opposition activist and former Pussy Riot lawyer Mark Feygin has launched a referendum on the zero-knowledge voting app Russia2024, challenging the legitimacy of the recent Russian elections and Vladimir Putin’s inauguration as president.
The vote, which went live on May 10th, three days after Putin’s inauguration, is the first protest vote on the app following months of audits and stress tests.
Russia2024 was built using Rarimo’s Freedom Tool, an open-source, surveillance-free voting solution that leverages blockchain and zero-knowledge cryptography to ensure citizens can poll, vote, and protest without being tracked. The app was first announced in a broadcast on March 9, 2024.
Following the announcement, the Kremlin attempted to obstruct the app by filing against it, temporarily removing it from the Apple store, and sponsoring negative reviews, a strategy exposed by a whistleblower who expressed support for the app.
“Dissent in Russia is growing more risky and public opinion harder to track. It is critical that we provide reliable, surveillance-proof avenues for protest and polling. Russia2024 and its underlying technology has enabled that,” Feygin said in a press release shared with Crypto Briefing.
The app was developed by Kyiv-based Rarilabs, with key contributions from activist developers working anonymously inside regimes around the world. Rarilabs is a privacy-first social protocol backed by Pantera Capital. In 2022, the company raised $10 million at a $100 million valuation for its Series A funding round.
According to the project’s whitepaper, the app uses Russia’s machine-readable passport information submitted by a user.
The data is then decrypted and verified locally (on a device). Digital identity, once authenticated, is resolved using a generated keypair, which is then used to interact with the app’s smart contract. The image below illustrates how the app works.
Zero-knowledge cryptography severs the link between the pass and passport data, and votes are published directly on Arbitrum, an Ethereum L2, where the data then becomes tamper-proof.
“Freedom Tool was built to help give a voice to people living in regimes. Its implementation in Russia is an early example of how blockchain and zero-knowledge cryptography can meet the urgent need around the world for privacy technology,” said Lasha Antadze, co-founder of Rarilabs.
Antadze previously worked on the Ukrainian government’s e-identity and digitalization reform, as well as the EU’s Stork 2.0 digital signature standardization.
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Oeisdigitalinvestigator.com:
The U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added two vulnerabilities in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, including a Linux kernel privilege elevation flaw.
The high-severity flaw tracked as CVE-2024-1086 was first disclosed on January 31, 2024, as a use-after-free problem in the netfilter: nf_tables component, but was first introduced by a commit in February 2014.
Netfilter is a framework provided by the Linux kernel that allows various networking-related operations, such as packet filtering, network address translation (NAT), and packet mangling.
The vulnerability is caused because the ‘nft_verdict_init()’ function allows positive values to be used as a drop error within the hook verdict, causing the ‘nf_hook_slow()’ function to execute a double free when NF_DROP is issued with a drop error that resembles NF_ACCEPT.
Exploitation of CVE-2024-1086 allows an attacker with local access to achieve privilege escalation on the target system, potentially gaining root-level access.
The issue was fixed via a commit submitted in January 2024, which rejects QUEUE/DROP verdict parameters, thus preventing exploitation.
The fix has been backported to multiple stable kernel versions as listed below:
In late March 2024, a security researcher using the alias ‘Notselwyn’ published a detailed write-up and proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit on GitHub, showcasing how to achieve local privilege escalation by exploiting the flaw on Linux kernel versions between 5.14 and 6.6.
While most Linux distrobutions pushed out fixes fairly quickly, Red Hat had not pushed out a fix until March, making it possible that threat actors used the public exploit on compromised systems.
CISA did not share specific details about how the vulnerability is exploited, but BleepingComputer has seen posts on hacking forums about the public exploits.
The cybersecurity agency has now given federal agencies until June 20, 2024, to apply the available patches.
If updating is not possible, admins are recommended to apply the following mitigations:
The second flaw CISA added on the KEV catalog this time, also setting the due date to June 20, is CVE-2024-24919, an information disclosure vulnerability impacting VPN devices from Check Point.
Following the vendor’s disclosure and security update release for this flaw, researchers from Watchtowr Labs published their analysis, underlining that the vulnerability is far worse than what Check Point’s bulletin reflected.
OEIS Financial Fraud Private Investigator:
In the past 24 hours, PEPE has experienced a 16.95% price increase, bringing its current value to $0.000001109. This surge in price has been accompanied by a growing market capitalization of $4.65 million, indicating strong market confidence in PEPE’s potential for further growth.
Veteran crypto investor Jameson has made a bold prediction, suggesting that PEPE is poised for a massive rally reminiscent of Dogecoin’s explosive rise in 2021.
Jameson, known for his keen eye for identifying promising altcoins, has drawn parallels between PEPE’s current charts and those of Dogecoin before its meteoric ascent.
$PEPE is gearing up for a 2021 DOGE pump
The charts look nearly identical
It’s only a matter of time before a MASSIVE CANDLE appears absolutely DECIMATING shorts and bears alike
It is clear to me PEPE is the chosen alt of this cycle and will outperform everything else, that is… pic.twitter.com/M9D0HvLwKd
— Jameson (@JamesonEth) May 20, 2024
Jameson has declared PEPE “the chosen alt of this cycle” and believes it will outperform all other altcoins.
In a show of his conviction, Jameson revealed that he went “all in” on PEPE last year, a move he expects to be validated as the market recognizes the altcoin’s true potential.
Technical analysis supports Jameson’s bullish outlook on PEPE.
The Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) indicator shows positive momentum, with the MACD line crossing above the signal line, signaling a bullish trend.
The Awesome Oscillator (AO) also reflects strong market optimism, with a positive value of $0.000001806.
The Relative Strength Index (RSI) stands at a neutral 56, suggesting that PEPE is neither overbought nor oversold, leaving room for further price appreciation.
The Chaikin Money Flow (CMF) indicator, which measures the buying and selling pressure of an asset, shows a slight positive capital inflow of 0.03. This indicates that more money is flowing into PEPE than out, further supporting the bullish sentiment surrounding the altcoin.
PEPE’s impressive performance can be attributed, in part, to the overall bullish sentiment currently prevailing in the cryptocurrency market.
The growing anticipation of an Ethereum Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF) has sparked optimism among investors, as it could potentially lead to increased mainstream adoption and institutional investment in cryptocurrencies.
This positive sentiment has not only boosted the price of Ethereum but has also lifted other altcoins, including PEPE.
As the crypto community eagerly watches PEPE’s progress, many are speculating on the altcoin’s future price milestones.
Some analysts believe that if the current pace of growth continues, PEPE could reach price levels of $0.000013, $0.000018, or even $0.000020.
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