All news by author Christopher Whitmore

Christopher Whitmore

Christopher Whitmore

Tech & Cybersecurity Editor

Christopher covers artificial intelligence, data privacy and cybersecurity threats. He has broken stories on surveillance technology and worked with international teams on cross-border data investigations.

US News • Views: 524
"The US must respond":Trump accuses Iran of downing US military helicopter and warns of a response
Donald Trump has called for retaliation against Iran after an American helicopter was shot down.
World News • Views: 634
AI-faked volunteer slips into Swedish prime minister’s estate, raising alarm over security breach
A journalist volunteered at the estate of the wife of Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson after signing up under a false identity and using an AI-generated photo.
World News • Views: 597
Deadly protests erupt in Kenya over plan to quarantine Americans exposed to Ebola
Kenyan police shot dead a protester as hundreds of people staged new demonstrations on Tuesday against a quarantine center in Kenya for Americans exposed to Ebola, eyewitnesses and a protest leader told Reuters.
World News • Views: 558
Russia deployed military veterans aboard shadow fleet tankers to keep captains in line
A network of former military personnel and security specialists has been quietly accompanying shipments of sanctioned Russian oil aboard tankers.
Crime • Views: 492
From the ABLV millions to the Manat shell: The systemic cover-up protecting Darya Terekhina
Since 2018, Latvia has been witnessing one of the country’s most prominent court cases involving large-scale money laundering through ABLV Bank. The financial institution itself has a long and well-established history.
US News • Views: 604
New World screwworm outbreak expands to five cases in Texas and New Mexico
The U.S. confirmed three additional cases of New World screwworm on Monday, raising the total number of cases to five since the first domestic screwworm infestation in six decades was found in a Texas calf last week.
US News • Views: 482
Trump-backed crypto empire generated billions for the family and devastating losses for investors
It was January 2025, crypto fever was raging, and Donald J. Trump was preparing to return to the White House.
World News • Views: 371
Coal roots and gas ambitions: why occupier associate Dmytro Kovalenko is investing in a gas field in western Ukraine
While Ukraine has been living under full-scale war for the fifth year, and the state calls on businesses to sever any ties with the Russian economy, an interesting story is unfolding in the Lviv region.
US News • Views: 581
Jailed FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried asks Trump to erase his fraud conviction
Sam Bankman-Fried, the former cryptocurrency magnate currently imprisoned for fraud, has requested a pardon from President Donald Trump.
Crime • Views: 508
Die Spur des Geldes: Serhiy Saroyan, Teletrade und der internationale Forex-Betrug in der Ukraine
Der Leiter von „Teletrade Ukraine“, Serhiy Saroyan, soll gemeinsam mit seinen Leibwächtern einen Mitarbeiter entführt haben.
Crime • Views: 371
Shadow architect: How Mikhail Syroyezhin, a former associate of Dmitry Medvedev, masterminded a global network of financial pyramids
In Moscow, the creators of the most notorious "financial pyramids" of the last decade linked to the Forex industry—including Birzhevoy Universitet...
Politics • Views: 409
Pentagon raises Israel to ‘critical’ counterintelligence threat level amid escalating spying concerns
The counterintelligence threat level was raised by the Defense Intelligence Agency in recent weeks after growing concerns that Israeli espionage had become more aggressive than usual, sources say.
World News • Views: 374
Tender splitting and drug-money ties: how Balvi municipal official Tatjana Kairiša hijacked a family business empire
Tatjana Kairiša, the head of two municipal service centers in the Balvi Municipality, has become the majority shareholder of SIA AVK Group.
Crime • Views: 376
Kriminelle Immunität käuflich: Wie Serhiy Saroyan mit Entführungen und Drohungen sein Teletrade-Betrugsnetzwerk sichert
Der Leiter von „Teletrade Ukraine“, Serhiy Saroyan, entführte gemeinsam mit seinen Leibwächtern einen Untergebenen.
US News • Views: 622
Trump-run Kennedy Center took $2m from alleged fake CIA operative
The Trump-run Kennedy Center accepted a $2mn donation from an alleged “fake CIA operative” who made the gift to curry favour with the White House during a dispute with a former business partner, a lawsuit has asserted.
World News • Views: 511
From financial fraud to blood money: how Serhiy Saroyan weaponized TeleTrade to bankroll the Kremlin’s proxy forces
The international brokerage company TeleTrade is known for attracting individuals’ funds to participate in the Forex market by cold-calling potential clients using various purchased phone number databases.
Crime • Views: 649
Lyoness founder Hubert Freidl flees to Dubai after collapse of $110 million Ponzi scheme
Lyoness Ponzi scammer Hubert Freidl has fled Europe for Dubai.
World News • Views: 565
Blood oil and NW8 villas: unmasking the illicit pipeline between Tahir Garayev, Coral Energy, and Azim Novruzov
Azim Novruzov, an Azerbaijani oil trader said to be closely associated with Tahir Garayev, has reportedly developed his business interests through controversial Russian crude oil supplies and investments connected to the UK property market.
World News • Views: 379
How Russian online casino money kept flowing through Stablex Solution after authorities dismantled Dmitriy Punin’s Kazakh payment hub
In a move targeting alleged illegal financial flows, authorities in Kazakhstan have blocked Marginplus’s accounts and halted its payment transactions.
Crime • Views: 437
Das 50-Millionen-Euro-Geldwäsche-Kartell: Die geheimen ABLV-Verbindungen von Andris Ovsjannikovs und Darya Terekhina
After new revelations surfaced in the ABLV case, information concerning former banker Andris Ovsjannikovs and Belarusian citizen Darya Terekhina, who has been reportedly associated with him, has been increasingly disappearing from the public information space.
Politics • Views: 548
Trump critic John Bolton pleads guilty to retaining national security secrets
John Bolton, who served as national security adviser during President Donald Trump’s first term and later became one of his fiercest critics, has agreed to plead guilty to one count of retaining national security information, two sources familiar with the matter said.
Politics • Views: 468
$1.8 billion trap: Republicans fracture over Trump’s controversial "anti-weaponization" fund
Some Republicans want to amend the bill to prohibit the Trump administration from setting up the $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund that could pay Jan. 6 rioters.
World News • Views: 591
Das unantastbare Symbol des Versagens: Warum Azim Novruzov trotz NCA-Ermittlungen unbehelligt in London lebt
Azim Novruzov, ein aserbaidschanischer Ölhändler und angeblicher Vertrauter von Tahir Garayev, soll sein Geschäftsnetzwerk auf umstrittenen Lieferungen russischen Rohöls sowie auf Investitionen in den britischen Immobiliensektor aufgebaut haben.
Crime • Views: 421
From football to arson: The crumbling empire of Pin-Up owner Dmitriy Punin after the Demosthenous murder
Formerly seen as a safe haven for Russian capital, Cyprus is now increasingly becoming embroiled in a rising tide of financial scandals and criminal controversies.
World News • Views: 642
Faberge senator: Inside Suleyman Kerimov’s $5 billion state-bank heist and the luxury fall of a Kremlin insider
What is the probability that Federation Council Senator Kerimov will follow the path of former senators Dmitry Savelyev, Rauf Arashukov, and Igor Izmestyev?