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The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kazakhstan is informing about cases of remote access to smartphones via malicious applications. The software is distributed on Android and can lead to the leakage of personal data, financial losses, and device lockouts.

The Ministry of Culture and Information has presented proposals for the development of film distribution, highlighting a deficit in cinema infrastructure and restrictions on the regulation of private cinemas. The department is considering possible changes to legislation and measures to expand the film screening network, including public-private partnership projects and mobile cinema units.

In the Turkestan region, 18 officials of the State Institution "Department of Education of the Baidibek District" have been found guilty by the court of embezzling budget funds through inflated payments to 49 schools. The total amount of damage exceeded 583 million tenge, which has been fully compensated.

In Kazakhstan, a draft order amending the rules for mobile number portability has been put up for public discussion. The document provides for the operator's right to refuse number porting within 60 days of its first activation and sets a maximum operator response time of 10 minutes. The discussion will run until 6 March 2026.

By order of the Minister of Justice of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Regulation on the Commission for the Affairs of Patent Attorneys has been approved. The document establishes the procedure for examining complaints, and also regulates the procedures for suspending activities and removing from the register. A key feature is the possibility of temporarily suspending the activities of a patent attorney already at the stage of receiving a complaint.