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Negotiating with Violent Criminal Groups: Lessons and Guidelines from Global Practice (Institute for Integrated Transitions, Brookings)

Mark Freeman and Vanda Felbab-Brown Negotiations with violent criminal groups – such as mafias, cartels, gangs and pirates – occur more often than imagined. This publication, grounded in more than three...

Global Goliaths. Multinational Corporations in the 21st Century Economy (Brookings)

C. Fritz Foley, James R. Hines Jr., and David Wessel Multinational corporations are the global goliaths of modern times, accounting for huge portions of world production, employment,...

Hacking a X-RAY Machine with WHIDelite & EvilCrowRF (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini The popular cyber security expert Luca Bongiorni demonstrated how to hack an X-Ray Machine using his WHIDelite tool. https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/117053/hacking/hacking-x-ray-machine.html

Critical update: Facebook Messenger users hit by scammers in over 80 states (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini Researchers from security firm Group-IB have detected a large-scale scam campaign targeting Facebook Messenger users all over the world. https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/117044/cyber-crime/facebook-messenger-scammers.html

North Korea-linked Lazarus APT hides malicious code within BMP image to avoid detection (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group is abusing bitmap (.BMP) image files in a recent spear-phishing campaign targeting entities in South Korea. https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/117035/apt/lazarus-apt-bmp-image.html

Watch out, hackers can take over your Cosori Smart Air Fryer (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini Watch out, hackers could breach into your house by exploiting two remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities in the Cosori Smart Air Fryer. https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/117024/hacking/cosori-smart-air-fryer-flaws.html

WeChat users targeted by hackers using recently disclosed Chromium exploit (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini Threat actors used the Chrome exploit publicly disclosed last week in attacks aimed at WeChat users in China, researchers warn. https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/117017/hacking/wechat-chromium-bug-attack.html

Crooks stole driver’s license numbers from Geico auto insurer (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini Car insurance provider Geico has suffered a data breach, attackers have stolen the driver’s licenses for policyholders for several weeks. https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/117009/data-breach/geico-data-breach.html

‘Bowl food’ startup Poke House closes $24M Series B led by Eulero Capital to expand in Europe (TechCrunch)

Mike Butcher The food tech industry is effectively now going into fast food. https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/20/bowl-food-startup-poke-house-closes-24m-series-b-led-by-eulero-capital-to-expand-in-europe/

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