Safar Umarzoda, Head of the Department for Countering Challenges and Threats of the CSTO Secretariat, took part in a special event (side-event) on "Countering Radicalization leading to terrorism and Extremism" organized by the Russian Federation on the margins of the OSCE Annual Conference on Security Review, where he reported on the measures taken by the CSTO on countering terrorism and extremism, and willingness to share the experience gained.
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.
On June 24-26, the second staff negotiations were held in the Kyrgyz Republic on the organization and conduct an operational meeting with the Command of the Collective Rapid Deployment Forces of the Central Asian Region (CAR CRDF) and a command and staff training with units of the CAR CRDF "Rubezh-2025", conducted as part of the joint operational and strategic training "Combat Brotherhood-2025".
On June 18-19, 2025, in Dushanbe (Republic of Tajikistan), the VI meeting of the Interstate Working Group on the creation of a Unified system of technical cover for railways of the member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization was held.
A delegation of the CSTO Joint Staff consisting of representatives of the armed forces of the Organization's states (the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, and the Republic of Tajikistan) took part in commemorative events dedicated to the Day of National Remembrance of the Victims of the Great Patriotic War in the Republic of Belarus.
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.