Pinkerton Insights Podcast

Media reports informed that most of the power had been restored in Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay after an electrical blackout last week. In South Africa, citizens of Alexandra, a township located in the northern area of Johannesburg, went on a protest again last week with a total shutdown.  Last week, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam opposition party in India called for protests in the district capitals of Tamil Nadu in response to the ongoing water crisis. As reported last week, Ethiopia has been without internet access since June 11. As reported by the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun, it is believed that a Russian or Eastern European hacker group gained remote access to the computers of the Japanese crypto exchange Coin check exchange employees using a malware sent via email. Mozilla Firefox reported a “critical” security flaw in its browsers last week, that allows arbitrary code execution, when manipulating JavaScript objects.