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Researchers said a Jan. 27 attack that aired footage of opposition leaders calling for assassination of Iran’s Supreme Leader was a clumsy and unsophisticated wiper attack.

There’s a lot of fishing going on:

The number of Chinese-flagged vessels in the south Pacific has surged 13-fold from 54 active vessels in 2009 to 707 in 2020, according to the SPRFMO. Meanwhile, the size of China’s squid catch has grown from 70,000 tons in 2009 to 358,000.

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Facebook parent agrees to pay $90M to settle decade-old data privacy lawsuit

Ransomware attack on NYC fertility clinic leads to breach of patients’ personal data

Phishing and ransomware attacks most significant security incidents for US healthcare organizations

More than £1bn was raised in external investment across 84 deals in the most recent financial year

Attacks on government targets soar almost 1900%

Web scraping raid generated 400 million requests

Breach bears many of the hallmarks of a state-sponsored attack

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