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🎯 Binance is behind the Hong Kong crypto exchange HKVAEX. HKVAEX, founded last December, shares technical and other resources with Binance, which has routinely participated in public events with the exchange this year. SCMP
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💥 Hamas Faces Few Sanctions for a Group Called Terrorist by the US. The number of new US sanctions on Hamas peaked in 2006, when the group won parliamentary elections. Bloomberg
💥 Sophisticated StripedFly Spy Platform Masqueraded for Years as Crypto Miner. Malware discovered in 2017 was long classified as a crypto miner. But researchers at Kaspersky Lab say it's actually part of a sophisticated spy platform. Zero Day
💥 Hundreds of Hamas fighters trained in Iran ahead of attack on Israel. Roughly 500 Palestinian terrorists got specialized combat instruction at Iranian facilities as recently as September. Al Arabiya
💥 As SBF plans to testify, former SDNY federal prosecutor sees it as a ‘Hail Mary’. On Thursday, prosecutors will finish their case against Bankman-Fried — which includes seven charges related to fraud and money laundering — and the defendant’s team will be given the opportunity to make a case. TechCrunch
💥 China rushes to swap Western tech with domestic options as U.S. cracks down. China has spent heavily on replacing computer equipment, and the telecom and financial sectors are probably the next target. Reuters
💥 Controversial Chip in Huawei Phone Produced on ASML Machine. Export restrictions on Europe’s most valuable tech company may have come too late to stem China’s advances in chipmaking. Bloomberg
💥 World's ghost fleet in focus over US Russian price cap crackdown. Western tanker owners have already reduced price cap shipments in recent months because of concerns a rally in global oil prices meant Russian crude values had exceeded the $60 a barrel limit. Reuters
💥 Inside a Massachusetts family’s elaborate scheme to defraud the lottery out of $20M. Ali Jaafar tried to pass off his winning streak as luck — but the lottery commission launched an investigation into the “factually or statistically improbable” results. NY Post
💥 Debt and Scandal Throw Billionaire Drahi’s Empire Into Turmoil. The 60-year-old tycoon’s debt-fueled acquisitions when interest rates were low put his group among Europe’s most leveraged companies and one of the region’s largest junk-rated borrowers. Bloomberg
💥 Venezuela’s attorney general opens investigation against presidential opposition. The announcement came hours after the opposition-organized commission released results showing participation of 2.4 million voters, the overwhelming majority of whom supported the longtime government foe. AP
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