The Latest Breaking News from NetBlocks

Protests over soaring food prices continued in several cities in Iran on Saturday, according to postings on social media, while an Iranian lawmaker told local media one person was killed in a demonstration in the southwest.

Russia has rerouted internet traffic in the occupied Ukrainian region of Kherson through Russian communications infrastructure, the internet service disruption monitor NetBlocks said on Monday.

Protesters in the Sri Lanka's largest city Colombo held numerous small, peaceful demonstrations over a severe economic crisis on Sunday, defying a nationwide curfew, while police used tear gas to disperse student protesters in the central city of Kandy.

Ukrtelecom, a Ukrainian telecommunications company, said it was hit with a cyberattack on Monday that sent the company’s services down across the entire country.

It was not yet known whether Ukrtelecom has been hit by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack or a deeper, more sophisticated intrusion

NetBlocks, a company that monitors web outages, reported access to Twitter is being ‘restricted on leading networks’ in Russia.

Internet connectivity in Ukraine has been badly affected by the Russian invasion, particularly in the southern and eastern parts of the country where fighting has been heaviest, internet blockage observatory NetBlocks said on Saturday. Russian forces captured the southeastern Ukrainian city of Melitopol on Saturday, Russia's Interfax news agency reported,…

(This Feb. 26 story corrects description of NetBlocks to internet monitoring organisation, not 'blockage observatory')