#centralasia — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #centralasia, aggregated by home.social.
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A 2,000-year-old Kushan royal seal found in southern Tajikistan could shed new light on how rulers and regional elites shared power across the empire https://ow.ly/aVJF50ZCmX2 #Archaeology #KushanEmpire #AncientHistory #CentralAsianHistory #CentralAsia #Tajikistan #AncientArtifacts
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China-Linked Spy Campaign Uses Five New Malware Families Against Central Asian Governments
Indicators extracted from public reporting. Source: https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/businessinsights/silkparasite-tracking-china-nexus-apt-across-central-asia
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Pulse Author: CyberHunter_NL
Created: 2026-08-21 06:55:58Be advised, this data is unverified and should be considered preliminary. Always do further verification.
#Asia #BitDefender #CentralAsia #China #CyberSecurity #Government #HTTP #HTTPS #InfoSec #Malware #OTX #OpenThreatExchange #RCE #bot #CyberHunter_NL
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SilkParasite: Tracking a China-Nexus APT Across Central Asia
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Pulse Author: Tr1sa111
Created: 2026-08-21 06:26:01Be advised, this data is unverified and should be considered preliminary. Always do further verification.
#Asia #CentralAsia #China #CyberSecurity #InfoSec #OTX #OpenThreatExchange #bot #Tr1sa111
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Trump’s threat of “economic warfare” against countries supporting Iran could put Central Asia’s southern trade routes under pressure as governments are investing more heavily in access through Iranian ports. https://ow.ly/aAA950ZBYu6 #Iran #Sanctions #Geopolitics #Trump #CentralAsia #TradePolicy
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The Forgotten Odyssey: Greeks in the Heart of Asia
"This article offers a window into the deep historical ties between Greece and Central Asia. It discusses how Alexander the Great worked to create a hybrid Greco-Central Asian culture through military conquest, strategic marriages, and the founding of cities."
Imamkhodjaeva, O.P. (2025) 'The Forgotten Odyssey: Greeks in the heart of Asia,' Athens Journal of Mediterranean Studies, 12(1), pp. 9–28. https://doi.org/10.30958/ajms.12-1-1.
#Research #Article #History #Histodons #Archaeology #Numismatics #Ancient #Greece #Greeks #CentralAsia #Asia #Odyssey #AlexanderTheGreat #Academia
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SilkParasite: Tracking a China-Nexus APT Across Central Asia
SilkParasite is a cyberespionage operation assessed with medium confidence as China-nexus that targeted government bodies across Central Asia. Seven remote access tool families were deployed, five of which were previously undocumented: DriveSilkRAT, CookiETagRAT, NomadRAT, GoginRAT, and NodeEdgeRAT. The toolset is small, modular, and professionally engineered with traces of AI-assisted development. Initial access occurred through malicious Microsoft Office documents delivered via spear-phishing, using regionally tailored lures impersonating government ministries. The operation leveraged DLL sideloading as the primary delivery mechanism and used Google Drive for command-and-control communications to hide within trusted services. Infrastructure analysis identified connections to China Unicom's backbone network, and operational patterns suggest a functioning software organization with maintained build pipelines and careful operational security.
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Pulse Author: AlienVault
Created: 2026-08-20 07:04:46Be advised, this data is unverified and should be considered preliminary. Always do further verification.
#Asia #CentralAsia #China #CyberSecurity #Cyberespionage #DRat #Edge #Espionage #Google #Government #InfoSec #Microsoft #MicrosoftOffice #OTX #Office #OpenThreatExchange #Phishing #RAT #Rust #SideLoading #SpearPhishing #bot #AlienVault
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Central Asia’s internet can change the moment you cross a border, with censorship ranging from selective blocking to a black market for access to the open web https://ow.ly/k6tr50ZyUIf #InternetFreedom #Censorship #DigitalRights #InternetAccess #CentralAsia
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Eight Uzbek citizens and one Tajik were killed in a drone attack on Nizhnekamsk, drawing Central Asia deeper into the human cost of Russia’s war https://ow.ly/jtev50ZyqEC #Nizhnekamsk #UkraineWar #MigrantWorkers #CentralAsia #DroneAttack #HumanCost #Uzbekistan #Tajikistan
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MENA News Highlights - Aug. 10 ‘26 - Zuhur News #351 on:
#Ireland-#UAE #Iran #Gaza #Syria #Lebanon #Aramco #SaudiArabia #Pakistan #Turkey #Yemen #Sudan #CentralAsia #Niqab Subscriptions appreciated.https://www.patreon.com/posts/166318511?utm_campaign=postshare_creator
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Sunday Special – Bukhara, Uzbekistan
Bukhara, Uzbekistan conjures images of ancient structures holding stories of a time long-past. Sunday Special aims to inspire and seek beauty in the world with locales chosen from those that interest me or from my own travels.https://wanderstheworld.com/2026/08/09/sunday-special-bukhara-uzbekistan/
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Analysis of a Modular Cyber Espionage Framework
Security researchers have uncovered a sophisticated cyber espionage operation deploying two previously undocumented malware families, OctLurk and SilkLurk, targeting government and public-sector organizations across Central Asia and the Middle East. Both modular backdoors utilize victim-specific decryption mechanisms, extensive obfuscation, and in-memory execution to evade detection. The malware enables credential theft, remote access, network reconnaissance, and plugin-based expansion. Operations began in January 2025, affecting entities in Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Syria, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. Victims include government offices, foreign affairs ministries, law enforcement agencies, healthcare providers, logistics organizations, research institutions, urban planning facilities, and educational establishments. Attackers deployed additional tools including Impacket's SecretsDump, Browser Password Decryptor, Pandora RC, Fscan, WinRAR, 7-Zip, and PlugX. A companion utility, LurkProxy, proxies a
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Created: 2026-08-07 10:23:00Be advised, this data is unverified and should be considered preliminary. Always do further verification.
#Afghanistan #Asia #BackDoor #Browser #CentralAsia #CyberSecurity #Education #Espionage #Government #Healthcare #ICS #InfoSec #Kazakhstan #LawEnforcement #Malware #MiddleEast #OTX #Office #OpenThreatExchange #Password #PlugX #Proxy #RAT #RCE #SMS #Syria #WinRAR #Word #ZIP #bot #AlienVault