NGO Forum

The Jerusalem Post posted an article titled, “International NGOs: The new feudalism.” The article reads in part as follows;

“Recently a man named Sherzad Mosa walked into a bar in Erbil, the capital of the Kurdish region of Iraq, and was surprised to overhear a woman describe it as an “NGO bar.” Mosa wondered on Facebook why hundreds of thousands of refugees are living in the Kurdish region, and “kids and women” are suffering while “200 NGOs have more than 1,600 foreign people working for them and they are getting paid more than $10,000 per month and staying in the best hotels?” Others commented on his thread that NGO workers were driving around in brand new vehicles and spending just a few hours with refugees and then driving back to their hotels.

The TechCrunch posted an article titled, “Russian hacking team The Dukes targeting NGOs and think tanks after Trump victory.” The article reads in part as follows;

“According to Internet security team Volexity has detected an active spear-phishing effort by Russian hacker groups including Cozy Bear and the Dukes. The targeted phishing emails feature subject lines like “The “Shocking” Truth About Election Rigging” and a false “FYI” from the Clinton Foundation.

You can read about the efforts on Volexity’s own site and KrebsOnSecurity.