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(Cybersecurity) Capital One discovered more customers’ SSNs exposed in 2019 hack (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini More clients of Capital One have been impacted in the 2019 data breach, the US bank is notifying them of their SSNs exposure. https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/116309/data-breach/capital-one-ssns.html

(Cybersecurity) Activision warns of Call of Duty Cheat tool used to deliver RAT (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini The popular video game publisher Activision is warning gamers that threat actors are actively disguising a remote-access trojan (RAT) in Duty Cheat cheat tool. https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/116301/malware/activision-call-of-duty-cheat-tool.html

(Cybersecurity/Security Affairs) Attackers are abusing GitHub infrastructure to mine cryptocurrency (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini The popular code repository hosting service GitHub is investigating a crypto-mining campaign abusing its infrastructure. https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/116294/malware/github-infrastructure-attacks-miner.html

(Cybersecurity) Evolution and rise of the Avaddon Ransomware-as-a-Service (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini The Avaddon ransomware operators updated their malware after security researchers released a public decryptor in February 2021. https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/116282/cyber-crime/avaddon-ransomware-evolution.html

(Cybersecurity/Facebook) Facebook data on more than 500 million accounts found online (Arab News)

Facebook has been grappling with data security issues for years https://www.arabnews.com/node/1837171/media

(Saudi Arabia) Saudi National Bank shares jump on bumper dividend and board appointees (Arab News)

The payout equates to 8 percent National Commercial Bank and Samba Financial Group officially combined under the name of Saudi National Bank (SNB) at the...

(Iraq/Gulf) Iraqi Airways to start direct flights to Abu Dhabi (Arab News)

Baghdad boosting ties with Gulf Regional aviation sector makes slow recovery https://www.arabnews.com/node/1837246/business-economy

(Saudi Arabia) Saudi Arabia looks to the private sector to boost health infrastructure (Arab News)

Currently, the private sector accounts for only a third of the Kingdom’s health care expenditure https://www.arabnews.com/node/1837271/business-economy

(Ethiopia) Ethiopia says Eritrean troops have started withdrawing from Tigray (Arab News)

Major countries call for swift, unconditional and verifiable withdrawal of the Eritrean soldiers Full access to the region has now been granted to humanitarian organizations https://www.arabnews.com/node/1837236/world

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