From June 24 to 26, 2026, CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov paid a working visit to the Republic of Tajikistan at the personal invitation of President Emomali Rahmon.
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On June 23, 2026, a ceremonial event was held at the Advanced Training Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation to mark the 20th anniversary of the CSTO Collective Security Council's decision granting the Institute the status of the Basic Educational Institution for Continuing Professional Education of law enforcement and special service personnel of the CSTO member states in the fields of counterterrorism, combating extremism, illicit drug trafficking, illegal migration, and other forms of transnational organized crime, as well as for the training of specialists for peacekeeping missions and teaching staff of educational institutions.
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On the XIX meeting of the Council of the Advisory Coordination Center of the Collective Security Treaty Organization on Computer Incident Response
26.06.2025
On June 19, 2025, in Bosteri, Issyk-Kul region of the Kyrgyz Republic, the XIX meeting of the Council of the Advisory Coordination Center of the Collective Security Treaty Organization on Computer Incident Response (CSTO CCC) was held, which was attended by delegations of representatives of national authorized bodies for responding to computer incidents of the CSTO member states.
Sergey Viktorovich Korelov, Chairman of the Council of the CSTO CCC, opened the meeting and addressed the participants.
During the meeting, members of the Council of the CSTO CCC, members of the delegations of the CSTO member states and the CSTO Secretariat discussed current threats to information security and methods of countering them.
The speakers noted a massive increase in the number of attacks using botnets in their Internet segments; the number of encrypted systems compromised through open RDP services using social engineering techniques; phishing attacks and attacks using supply chains with intensive involvement of various interacting organizations and structures during their implementation. The meeting participants expressed particular concern about the threats associated with the leakage of significant amounts of data from individuals and legal entities.
During the event, delegates exchanged views on current threats and the problem of promptly communicating information about critical software vulnerabilities to owners of vulnerable resources and responding to them. They noted the active development of information exchange activities between the specialists of the CSTO CCC contact points, and an increase in the number of joint events.
They expressed gratitude to the representatives of the Kyrgyz Republic for organizing the meeting and welcoming them.
