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The Guardian
6 days ago
- Politics
- The Guardian
Caribbean leaders hail ICJ climate ruling as ‘historic' win for small island states
Leaders in the Caribbean have hailed the outcome of the international court of justice (ICJ) climate change case as a 'historic legal victory' for small island states everywhere. Several countries in the region had provided evidence to the ICJ case, which ended this week with a landmark advisory opinion that could see states ordered to pay reparations if they fail to tackle fossil fuels and prevent harm to the climate system. Describing the opinion as a 'historic legal victory for small states' that are bearing the worst impacts of climate change, the prime minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG), Ralph Gonsalves, told the Guardian it would strengthen the Caribbean's negotiating power. 'What is very interesting is that it says that the obligations laid out in the important [climate change] treaties are not simply procedural,' he said. 'They create substantive legal obligations.' In recent years the Caribbean has been plagued by a string of catastrophic hurricanes. Last year Hurricane Beryl demolished more than 90% of buildings in parts of multi-island SVG and left thousands homeless and without running water, electricity and food. Gonsalves said the advisory opinion – which said a clean, healthy and sustainable environment is a human right – connects climate action treaties such as the Paris agreement to other international laws such as those governing human rights. Echoing Gonsalves' sentiments, the Bahamas' attorney general, Ryan Pinder, praised the ICJ for taking a 'very strong position' that allowed countries to 'speak and argue about the adverse effects of the climate crisis on its people' and potentially provided more legal options to small states. 'It certainly opens up the positions of … states like the Bahamas to go into other areas of the United Nations and other multilateral institutions that are human rights-focused,' he told the Guardian. Referring to the catastrophic Hurricane Dorian in 2019, which killed more than 70 people and caused an estimated US$3.4bn worth of damage, Pinder said: '[This] had a significant impact on the human rights of our people, whether that be displacement … the right to an adequate standard of living … [or] access to food, water and housing. 'All of those are fundamental human rights that the ICJ has now recognised as a significant component of the adverse effects of climate change.' The advisory opinion's focus on reparations, he said, was important for the Bahamas, because it was about the obligation of major polluters to restore a country and its assets if it suffered the effects of a climate change-related disaster. Human rights and climate justice lawyer Nikki Reisch said it was possible to connect devastating climatic events to climate change and to the states responsible and pursue justice. 'The science on attribution and causation is strong and only getting stronger. The court made clear that there is no technical barrier to connecting climate destruction to its causes, to the continued pollution from fossil fuels and destruction of carbon sinks,' she said. 'The science is there, and this decision confirms that the law is too.' Reisch added that countries were responsible for past and present environmental breaches. 'The court really rejected the attempts of the biggest cumulative emitters like the United States and others to sweep history under the rug and ignore the decades of climate destruction, of fossil fuel production and pollution, of colonialism that laid the foundations for the devastation that climate change is wreaking in so many parts of the world.' In the UK, some MPs criticised the ICJ opinion, with the shadow foreign secretary, Priti Patel, describing it on X as a 'mad' decision, adding that the ICJ had 'lost its core purpose and is now joining political campaigns and bandwagons'. Dr Justin Sobion, who coordinated the Caribbean's ICJ submissions, said the opinion was an interpretation of climate obligations under international law, including global agreements that countries such as the UK – which recognise there is a climate emergency – have ratified. Pinder said: 'I'm not sure, given some of the commentary we've seen from larger developed countries and countries that were in the Industrial Revolution, that [the ICJ advisory] is really going to change their opinions.' He added that the 'rather unfortunate' comments from some political leaders in the UK on the ICJ opinion indicated that 'multilateralism is still going to be a significant challenge'. Pinder and Gonsalves said their countries were reviewing the ICJ opinion – which UN member states instructed the ICJ to produce in 2023 after years of campaigning by Pacific island law students and diplomacy led by Vanuatu – and considering how to work with other countries in the region on next steps. 'This has given us an excellent platform,' Gonsalves said. 'We have … to follow through with some heavy lifting, to do negotiations. At the end of the day, this is about life, living and production for all of us on planet Earth.'
Yahoo
23-07-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Playoff standings: How national series fields shape up heading into Dover
Shane van Gisbergen made it three wins in five races as he crossed the start/finish line comfortably ahead of Chase Briscoe on Sunday at Sonoma Raceway. After the recent run of road courses in the schedule, the NASCAR Cup Series will head back to the ovals for the next three weeks, starting at Dover Motor Speedway. Read on to see full playoff standings and key battles in each of NASCAR's three national series. As a reminder: A win provisionally clinches a playoff spot for full-time drivers in all three series, and it's the simplest path to the postseason. The remainder of the postseason field — 16 drivers in Cup, 12 in Xfinity and 10 in the Craftsman Truck Series — is determined by points earned over the regular season. RELATED: | NASCAR CUP SERIES By clicking on the 'Playoff Picture' tab on our standings page, you'll see SVG is now in third place ahead of Christopher Bell. SVG has one more playoff point based on three race wins and two stage wins versus Bell's three race wins and one stage win. Hard to believe for a guy who, before this recent run of road-course dominance, sat 33rd in the standings. Drivers provisionally qualified for playoffs with a win (12): Kyle Larson (three wins), Denny Hamlin (three wins), Christopher Bell (three wins), Shane van Gisbergen (three wins), William Byron, Chase Elliott, Ryan Blaney, Chase Briscoe, Ross Chastain, Joey Logano, Austin Cindric and Josh Berry. Winless drivers more than 100 points above the elimination line (one): Tyler Reddick (+149). Biggest movement: Thanks to his 10th-place finish at Sonoma, Kyle Busch gained nine points against the elimination line and now sits minus-37 heading to Dover. Three of Busch's seven top-10 finishes this season have come on road courses, including two in a row the last two weeks. Alex Bowman lost seven points against the elimination line after Ty Dillon bumped him out of the way on the last lap to win their In-Season Challenge matchup. In addition to losing to Dillon, Bowman's 19th-place finish at Sonoma dropped him to just 32 points above the elimination line as he dipped beneath Chris Buescher in the playoff standings. Note: Drivers in bold have provisionally clinched a playoff spot by virtue of winning. There are six races remaining in the regular season. Rank Driver Cutoff 1 Kyle Larson 3 WINS 2 Denny Hamlin 3 WINS 3 Shane van Gisbergen 3 WINS 4 Christopher Bell 3 WINS 5 William Byron WIN 6 Ryan Blaney WIN 7 Austin Cindric WIN 8 Joey Logano WIN 9 Chase Briscoe WIN 10 Ross Chastain WIN 11 Josh Berry WIN 12 Chase Elliott WIN 13 Tyler Reddick +149 14 Chris Buescher +34 15 Alex Bowman +32 16 Bubba Wallace +3 ELIMINATION LINE 17 Ryan Preece -3 18 Kyle Busch -37 19 AJ Allmendinger -50 20 Ty Gibbs -60 21 Erik Jones -68 22 Michael McDowell -70 23 John Hunter Nemechek -85 24 Ricky Stenhouse Jr. -91 25 Carson Hocevar -96 26 Zane Smith -96 27 Brad Keselowski -136 28 Austin Dillon -138 29 Daniel Suárez -139 30 Todd Gilliland -148 31 Ty Dillon -149 32 Justin Haley -152 33 Noah Gragson -203 34 Cole Custer -214 35 Riley Herbst -231 36 Cody Ware -322 NASCAR XFINITY SERIES Connor Zilisch picked up his third win of the season by outmaneuvering teammate Shane van Gisbergen at Sonoma. The 18-year-old wunderkind joined Justin Allgaier and Austin Hill with three wins this season. However, Zilisch's victory meant the number of unique winners in the series stayed the same at seven this week. Drivers provisionally qualified for playoffs with a win (7): Justin Allgaier (three wins), Austin Hill (three wins), Connor Zilisch (three wins), Jesse Love, Brandon Jones, Nick Sanchez and Sammy Smith. Winless drivers more than 100 points above the elimination line (one): Sam Mayer (+163). Biggest movement: Thanks to his eighth-place finish at Sonoma, Carson Kvapil gained 27 points against the elimination line and sits just below the 100 club at plus-90 points to the good. In fact, everyone above the elimination line gained points at Sonoma: Sam Mayer (+14), Sheldon Creed (+24), Taylor Gray (+14) and Jeb Burton (+4) all joined Kvapil. This meant most of the drivers below the elimination line lost some ground, with the biggest losers being Christian Eckes (-21) and Ryan Sieg (-20), who plummeted thanks to 34th and 35th place finishes at Sonoma, respectively. Note: Drivers in bold have provisionally clinched a playoff spot by virtue of winning. There are seven races remaining in the regular season. Rank Driver Cutoff 1 Justin Allgaier 3 WINS 2 Austin Hill 3 WINS 3 Connor Zilisch 3 WINS 4 Brandon Jones WIN 5 Sammy Smith WIN 6 Jesse Love WIN 7 Nick Sanchez WIN 8 Sam Mayer +163 9 Carson Kvapil +90 10 Sheldon Creed +54 11 Taylor Gray +22 12 Jeb Burton +16 ELIMINATION LINE 13 Harrison Burton -16 14 Ryan Sieg -50 15 Dean Thompson -66 16 Christian Eckes -81 17 Daniel Dye -84 18 Brennan Poole -112 19 Josh Williams -129 20 Jeremy Clements -147 21 Anthony Alfredo -179 22 Matt DiBenedetto -192 23 William Sawalich -197 24 Blaine Perkins -212 25 Kyle Sieg -218 26 Parker Retzlaff -228 27 Ryan Ellis -239 28 Kris Wright -303NASCAR CRAFTSMAN TRUCK SERIES The Craftsman Truck Series is off until July 25 at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park, so there were no changes in the standings this week. Drivers provisionally qualified for playoffs with a win (7): Corey Heim (five wins), Chandler Smith (two wins), Layne Riggs, Tyler Ankrum, Daniel Henric, Stewart Friesen and Rajah Caruth. Note: Drivers in bold have provisionally clinched a playoff spot by virtue of winning. There are three races remaining in the regular season. Rank Driver Cutoff 1 Corey Heim 5 WINS 2 Chandler Smith 2 WINS 3 Layne Riggs WIN 4 Tyler Ankrum WIN 5 Daniel Hemric WIN 6 Stewart Friesen WIN 7 Rajah Caruth WIN 8 Kaden Honeycutt +67 9 Grant Enfinger +64 10 Ty Majeski +38 ELIMINATION LINE 11 Jake Garcia -38 12 Giovanni Ruggiero -65 13 Ben Rhodes -68 14 Tanner Gray -101 15 Connor Mosack -141 16 Matt Crafton -153 17 Andres Perez -165 18 Jack Wood -175 19 Matt Mills -189 20 Dawson Sutton -206 21 Spencer Boyd -248 22 Toni Breidinger -273 23 Frankie Muniz -280
Yahoo
21-07-2025
- General
- Yahoo
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Phone Arena
20-07-2025
- Phone Arena
This attack could give criminals control of your mobile or desktop browser
A JavaScript-based redirect attack is serious because it can force your browser (mobile or desktop) to navigate to another website without your consent or even your knowledge. The concern is that your browser could be sent to malicious websites. This attack injects or manipulates JavaScript code on a legitimate webpage. Before you know it, the browser on your phone (or even your desktop computer) makes you the victim of a phishing scam, spyware, keyloggers (recording your keystrokes), and trojans. The goal of this is to obtain the passwords you use, which would allow attackers to access your banking and financial apps. The JavaScript-based redirect attacks are being delivered via Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) files. These are treated mostly as harmless image files but they can be embedded with script elements design to redirect mobile and desktop browsers to dangerous websites. The destinations of the redirects are determined by the attackers. Example of credentials phishing with the name of the company used by the attackers edited. | Image credit-Ontinue According to Ontinue, the emails use weak or ineffectual email authentication domains. This allows the attackers to get potential victims to open the emails they send by pretending that they were sent by a trusted brands or an individual. The email includes "a call to action" which is an attempt to get the victim to open the image file or preview it on a mobile or desktop browser. Once the image is rendered, the SVG executes the embedded JavaScript silently. The JavaScript execution is achieved and the browser is then redirected without any user interaction. -Ontinue Watch out for emails that get downright pushy about having you view an image file immediately. If an email looks as though it was sent from a company you do business with, look for spelling errors or call the company using a phone number that you find online. You can't trust all business numbers you get from Google since some are crowd-sourced and are open to manipulation by bad actors.
Forbes
19-07-2025
- Forbes
Delete Any Emails That Include These Images On Your Phone Or PC
You will not see this attack. getty Republished on July 19 with new analysis into this dangerous image email attack. Here we go again. There's a fast growing threat in your inbox that's hard to detect — even for security software on your PC. This has 'seemingly come out of nowhere,' but you need to be aware. And it means deleting a raft of incoming emails. The new warning comes courtesy of Ontinue , which says 'threat actors are increasingly leveraging Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) files as a delivery vector for JavaScript-based redirect attacks.' Plenty of these images, 'commonly treated as harmless' contain 'embedded script elements' that lead to browser redirects. And that's a huge risk. While these images might be .SVG attachments, as we have seen before, they could also be links to external images pulled into the email. And the campaign also relies on spoofed domains and email lures to trick users into opening and engaging. Forbes Apple's Next iPhone Upgrade May Be Bad News For Google By Zak Doffman As Sophos explains, the SVG file format 'is designed as a method to draw resizable, vector-based images on a computer. By default, SVG files open in the default browser on Windows computers. But SVG files are not just composed of binary data, like the more familiar JPEG, PNG, or BMP file formats. SVG files contain text instructions in an XML format for drawing their pictures in a browser window.' VIPRE warns that 'up until this point, SVGs have been recognized by email security tools as generally benign image files, which is why attackers are now having so much success hiding their nefarious exploits in them.' Looking at these latest attacks, SlashNext's J Stephen Kowski told me 'when you open or preview these 'images,' they can secretly redirect your browser to dangerous websites without you knowing.' That means you need to be 'extra careful' with images. Because these attackers leverage spoofed domains and senders to trick you, it isn't as easy as just avoiding emails from unknown senders. Instead, you should delete any email with an .SVG attachment unless you're expecting it. And you should allow your browser to block external images until you're certain of their origin. Kowski says these emails will also likely be 'pushy about viewing the image right away,' and while 'your email provider's built-in security features, such as spam filtering and safe attachments, can help, they're not perfect against these newer tricks.' Jason Soroko from Sectigo goes even further, warning security teams to 'treat every inbound SVG as a potential executable,' as the surge in such attacks continues. The real threat though lies in user complacency. SVG attacks, VIPRE says, are now tussling with PDFs to become 'attackers' favorite attachments of choice.' These are only images, most users assume, and so no click-throughs, no harm. Forbes Apple Warning—Do Not Make These Calls On Your iPhone By Zak Doffman Bambenek Consulting's John Bambenek says this is 'a fresh spin on the technique of using image files for delivering suspect content, in this case, malicious PDFs. The attackers have to rely on complacency ('it's only an image, it doesn't execute code') to lull organizations into accepting this content and getting it on the inside of a network.' Ontinue says 'the observed targets of this campaign fall into B2B Service Providers, including the ones handling valuable Corporate Data regularly, including Financial and Employee data, Utilities, Software-as-a-Service providers that are great social engineering targets as they expect to receive a high volume of emails.' The payload itself 'is delivered via an .SVG file that contains a JavaScript block hidden within a CDATA section. The embedded code uses a static XOR key to decrypt a secondary payload at runtime. This decoded script reconstructs and executes a redirect command using the Function() constructor.' And the team warns 'this technique demonstrates how adversaries are shifting away from executable payloads and towards smuggling (HTML and now SVG) techniques. By embedding script logic into image formats and using trusted browser functions, the attack chain avoids triggering traditional behavioral or signature-based alerts.' The emails containing the attachments or links will be simple, 'using a minimal format to avoid detection and provoke curiosity or interaction.' Hijacking poorly protected domains or spoofing others with special characters enhances the lure. 'While this report and research is valuable to enterprises,' Bambenek says, 'and the search valuable for hunt teams, organizations without a security staff or end consumers will remain vulnerable to conventional cybercrime with this technique.' 'This SVG attack vector is exactly what we've been tracking,' Kowski warns. 'Attackers have exhausted much of the text-based social engineering playbook over the last ten years and are now getting creative with content payloads to execute malicious code.' And this is easily done because 'attackers can easily spoof trusted senders, making recipients more likely to open what appears to be an innocent image file.' Forbes Do Not Use This WiFi Setting On Your iPhone Or Android Phone By Zak Doffman 'The beauty of SVG files from an attacker's perspective,' he told me, 'is that they look like harmless images but can contain embedded JavaScript that runs the moment someone opens the file in a browser, bypassing traditional email security that focuses on executable attachments.' Which means users need a new defensive playbook. And so the advice is just as simple. If you're not expecting an email which includes image links or .SVG attachments, delete them from your inbox. 'This campaign highlights a creative pivot in attacker methodology,' the team says, 'using benign file formats to hide malicious logic and evade established detection controls.' Which is another way of saying that you're your own best defense.
