Latest news with #defacement
BBC News
4 days ago
- BBC News
Religious items defaced at Nuneaton Sikh Mission Centre
A teenager has been arrested after religious items were defaced at a Sikh community Police said it appeared he broke into the Sikh Mission Centre on Marlborough Road, Nuneaton, at about 17:00 BST on said it was called at 19:00 and found food had been tampered with, plus other force said it realised this was a "concerning incident" and it was looking to provide reassurance to those affected. The teenager was interviewed by officers on Wednesday evening, the force said. Follow BBC Coventry & Warwickshire on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram.
Khaleej Times
02-07-2025
- Politics
- Khaleej Times
Lithuania says Moscow behind defacing of anti-Soviet monument
Lithuanian prosecutors said on Wednesday Russia's GRU military intelligence service had ordered the defacement of a monument to an anti-Soviet resistance leader in January 2024. Three residents of Estonia have been charged with travelling to fellow Baltic state Lithuania to carry out the act, prosecutor Rimas Bradunas told a press conference. The statue in southern Lithuanian town Merkine of Adolfas Ramanauskas, kneeling with his rifle in hand, was covered in red paint. Ramanauskas led armed resistance to the Soviet occupation of Lithuania after World War II before being executed in 1957. "Our investigation determined that these people, acting in an organised group, were executing the orders of Russian special services, in particular GRU, to destabilise the country," Bradunas said. Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not immediately reply to a request for comment. Two of the three charged are dual Estonian-Russian citizens, while one is a Russian citizen. They were arrested in Estonia and handed over to Lithuania after an investigation involving the intelligence services of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, the prosecutor said. The three, who are construction workers, were paid from a few hundred euros to a few thousand euros for their job, which lasted several months and included a survey of potential defacement targets, said Bradunas. They face up to seven years in jail if convicted on the charges, which include assisting another state to act against the Republic of Lithuania. Lithuanian prosecutors charged two people in March with attempting to start a fire at Vilnius IKEA store in May 2024, and accused Russia's military intelligence of orchestrating it. Russia dismissed the accusations as baseless and driven by what it describes as Russophobia. It has denied allegations by all three Baltic states, annexed by Moscow during World War II but now part of Nato and the European Union, of cyber attacks, disinformation campaigns and military pressure, especially since Russia's attack on Ukraine in 2022.
TechCrunch
11-06-2025
- Health
- TechCrunch
US government's vaccine website defaced with AI-generated content
In Brief A U.S. government website designed to inform the public about vaccines has been defaced and now hosts apparently AI-generated spam. The domain, which belongs to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), appears to have been hosting the same kind of content — mostly gay-themed and LGBTQ+ posts — since at least May 12, according to an archived version of the site. It's unclear who is responsible for it, or what is the purpose of this defacement other than pushing AI-generated slop spam. Websites hosted on official U.S. government domains have been hijacked in the past to host scam ads and hacking services. 404 Media reported on Wednesday that the vaccines HHS website is part of a wider spam operation that includes websites owned by NPR, Nvidia, and Stanford University, all of which redirect to 'a nonsense SEO spam page,' as 404 Media journalist Sam Cole called it, hosted on HHS did not respond to TechCrunch's request for comment.
