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Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape.

Mythical Beasts and Where to Find Them: Mapping the Global Spyware Market and its Threats to National Security and Human Rights  

Dissecting Lumma Malware: Analyzing the Fake CAPTCHA and Obfuscation Techniques – Part 2  

Predator Spyware Infrastructure Returns Following Exposure and Sanctions

Malware’s Shared Secrets: Code Similarity Insights for Ransomware Gangs Activities Tracking      

Mallox ransomware: in-depth analysis and evolution  

A glimpse into the Quad7 operators’ next moves and associated botnets  

CosmicBeetle steps up: Probation period at RansomHub  

New RansomHub attack uses TDSKiller and LaZagne, disables EDR  

Hadooken Malware Targets Weblogic Applications

Ajina attacks Central Asia: Story of an Uzbek Android Pandemic      

Void captures over a million Android TV boxes

Applications of Fuzzy Logic and Probabilistic Neural Networks in E-Service for Malware Detection

A new TrickMo saga: from Banking Trojan to Victim’s Data Leak    

Earth Preta Evolves its Attacks with New Malware and Strategies 

Threat Actors Exploit GeoServer Vulnerability CVE-2024-36401

TIDRONE Targets Military and Satellite Industries in Taiwan

Fake recruiter coding tests target devs with malicious Python packages Targeted Iranian Attacks Against Iraqi Government Infrastructure   

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Budanov identified North Korea as Russia’s most dangerous military ally for Ukraine, as its weapons and ammunition supplies significantly impact the intensity of hostilities.

Ahead of Tuesday’s candidates’ debate I offered the US vice-president some advice: distance yourself from Joe Biden and denounce Trump’s treasonous relationship with Putin towards the war in Ukraine.

U.S. President Joe Biden is looking forward to discussing Ukraine’s war strategy with President Volodymyr Zelensky this month.

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The world in focus, as seen by a Canadian leading global affairs analyst, writer and speaker, in his review of international media.

London — U.K. Foreign Secretary David Lammy accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of “bluster” Sunday over his warning that letting Ukraine use long-range weapons to strike inside Russia would put NATO “at war” with Moscow.

Tensions between Russia and the West over the conflict reached dire levels this week as U.S. President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer met at the White House to discuss whether to ease rules on Kyiv’s use of western-supplied weaponry.

“I think that what Putin’s doing is throwing dust up into the air,” Lammy told the BBC. 

“There’s a lot of bluster. That’s his modus operandi. He threatens about tanks, he threatens about missiles, he threatens about nuclear weapons.”

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been asking for permission to use British Storm Shadow missiles and U.S.-made ATACMS missiles to hit targets deeper inside Russia for months.

Biden and Starmer delayed a decision on the move during their meeting on Friday.

It came after Putin warned that green-lighting use of the weapons “would mean that NATO countries, the U.S., European countries, are at war with Russia.”

“If that’s the case, then taking into account the change of nature of the conflict, we will take the appropriate decisions based on the threats that we will face,” he added. 

The Russian leader has long warned Western countries that they risk provoking a nuclear war over their support for Ukraine.

“We cannot be blown off course by an imperialist fascist, effectively, that wants to move into countries willy nilly,” said Lammy.

“If we let him with Ukraine, believe me, he will not stop there.”

Lammy said that talks between Starmer, Biden and Zelensky over the use of the missiles would continue at the United Nations General Assembly gathering in New York later this month.

In an exclusive Kyiv Post interview, International Bar Association Executive Director Mark Ellis discussed Mongolia’s failure to arrest Russian President Vladimir Putin and its implications.

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LIPOVA LAZNE, Czech Republic — One person drowned in southwest Poland and thousands were evacuated across the border in the Czech Republic as heavy rains continued to batter central Europe on Sunday, causing flooding in several areas.

A firefighter tackling flooding in lower Austria was also killed, Austrian Vice Chancellor Werner Kogler said on Sunday on social platform X as authorities declared the province, which surrounds Vienna, bordering the Czech Republic and Slovakia, a disaster area.

Rivers overflowed from Poland to Romania, where four people were found dead on Saturday, after days of torrential rain in a low-pressure system named Boris.

Some parts of the Czech Republic and Poland faced the worst flooding in almost three decades.

In the Czech Republic, a quarter of a million homes were without power due to high winds and rain. Czech police said they were looking for three people who were in a car that fell into the river Staric near Lipova Lazne, 235 kilometers east of Prague on Saturday.

In Poland, one person died in Klodzko county, which Prime Minister Donald Tusk said was the worst-hit area of the country and where 1,600 had been evacuated.

“The situation is very dramatic,” Tusk told reporters on Sunday after a meeting in Klodzko town, which was partly under water as the local river rose to 6.65 meters Sunday morning before receding slightly.

That surpassed a record seen in heavy flooding in 1997, which partly damaged the town and claimed 56 lives in Poland.

The nearby historic town of Glucholazy ordered evacuations Sunday morning as the local river started to break its banks, while firefighters and soldiers had been fighting since Saturday to protect a bridge in the town.

Residents across the Czech border also said the situation was worse than flooding seen before.

“What you see here is worse than in 1997, and I don’t know what will happen because my house is under water, and I don’t know if I will even return to it,” said Pavel Bily, a resident of Lipova Lazne.

The fire service in the region said it had evacuated 1,900 people as of Sunday morning, while many roads were impassable.

In the worst-hit areas, more than 10 centimeters of rain fell overnight and around 45 centimeters since Wednesday evening, the Czech weather institute said.

More rain is expected Sunday and Monday.

In Budapest, officials raised forecasts for the Danube to rise in the second half of this week, to above 8.5 meters, nearing a record 8.91 meters seen in 2013, as rain continued in Hungary, Slovakia and Austria.

“According to forecasts, one of the biggest floods of the past years is approaching Budapest but we are prepared to tackle it,” Budapest’s mayor Gergely Karacsony said.

In Romania, authorities said the rain was less intense than on Saturday, when flooding killed four and damaged 5,000 homes. Towns and villages in seven counties across eastern Romania were affected, and the country’s emergency response unit said it was still searching for two people missing.