Deepfake video meeting with fake CFO costs company $25.6 mn

IANS | February 5, 2024 11:08 AM

Hong Kong, Feb 5 (IANS) A deepfake video conference call where a digitally recreated avatar of the chief financial officer (CFO) ordered money transfers has cost a multinational company $25.6 million in a first-such scam.

Discontinuing UNRWA funding will have disastrous repercussions: Qatar's PM

IANS | February 5, 2024 9:15 AM

Tel Aviv, Feb 5 (IANS) Qatar's Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani has said that there would be "disastrous repercussions" in the stability of the region if funding for United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is halted.

West Asia faces faith-based politics (Column: The Third Eye)

D.C. Pathak | February 4, 2024 10:00 AM

New Delhi: The turn of events involving Iran's cross-border missile attack on January 16 on the camps of Jaish-al Adl, a Sunni extremist organisation working out of Baluchistan demanding an independent Baluch nation and a retaliatory action of the same kind carried out by Pakistan on January 18 in the adjoining area of Iran - on the ground that supporters of the Salafi outfit operated from Iran as well - have more than anything else, unravelled the rapidly rising militancy attributable to the growth of extremism in the Muslim world on one hand and the inevitable outbreak of sectarian violence between Sunnis and Shiites resulting from it, on the other.

PTI's future 'prospects' in Pakistan politics

Hamza Ameer | February 4, 2024 9:13 AM

Islamabad, Feb 4 (IANS) Future of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), which emerged as a major political party in the country in the 2013 general polls, is in the doldrums as nomination papers of several party leaders, including founder Imran Khan, have been rejected by the Election Commission of Pakistan over corruption charges.