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Video shows plumes of smoke rising from Mahshahr Petrochemical Complex in Iran’s Khuzestan Province on Monday. Source: Al Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera
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A China-nexus cyber espionage group has been observed deploying a BSD variant of a known backdoor called BRICKSTORM, as well as two other malware families codenamed PLENET (aka GRIMBOLT) and AGENTPSD to target Linux systems. The activity has been attributed by Volexity to a threat cluster it tracks as VerdantBamboo, which it said overlaps with hacking groups known as Clay Typhoon (Microsoft), Source: The Hacker News
In effort to contain escalation, US President Donald Trump spoke with Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu, US media reported. Source: Al Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera
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