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Hello!  It’s March 5, and we’re tracking today's top stories: U.S. Treasury sanctions Intellexa spyware consortium, Spanish court wants ex-boss of Popular, PwC, to stand trial for fraud, Illicit Iran oil sales hit $90B, FBI hunts Iranian assassin targeting former Trump officials, and much more...

 

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🎯 U.S. Treasury sanctions Intellexa spyware consortium in unprecedented move. Intellexa sells the Predator spyware, a zero-click malware that can infect a person's device without any interactions. Axios 

 

Top Stories

 

🌎 Spanish court wants ex-boss of Popular, PwC, to stand trial over fraud. A Spanish High Court judge proposed that former Banco Popular chairman Angel Ron and 12 former executives stand trial on charges of investor fraud. Reuters

 

🌎 Illicit Iranian Oil Sales Hit $90 Billion Under Biden, Fueling Tehran’s Terror Proxies. Exports to China, Venezuela soar as Iran-backed terror forces target Western cargo ships. Free Beacon

 

🚩 Iran Defies U.S. Sanctions With Surging Exports of Liquefied Petroleum Gas Bloomberg

 

🌎 FBI hunts for suspected Iranian assassin targeting Trump-era officials. FBI’s Miami field office issued a public alert seeking information on Majid Dastjani Farahani, a member of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security. Semafor

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🌎 US ballerina reveals inhumane conditions in Russian prison: Shower once a week, lights stay on 24/7. Despite the harsh conditions inside the Yekaterinburg detention center, the 32-year-old Beverly Hills spa worker has managed to hold onto her sense of humor. NYP

 

🌎 Newly Released Messages Detail Roots of the Fake Electors Scheme. Emails and texts unearthed show how key figures intended their plan to create a cloud of confusion to help keep Donald Trump in office. NYT

 

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🌎 Dozens of ‘major’ compliance breaches at Bank of England. While the NAO said the central bank had “made good progress” it warned there had been an unacceptable level of compliance breaches of the Bank’s own staff policies. Guardian

 

🌎 Operation Squid: 1.3 tons of cocaine found hidden in frozen fish in Portugal. The smuggled cargo, which weighed as much as a compact SUV, was discovered in broader campaign to combat drug trafficking. CBS

 

🌎 Hackers Behind the Change Healthcare Ransomware Attack Just Received a $22M Payment. The transaction, visible on Bitcoin's blockchain, suggests the victim of one of the worst ransomware attacks in years may have paid a very large ransom. Wired

IN THE NEWS

Russia & China

 

💥 Valuable Russian Military Documents Exposed Newsweek

 

💥 Wuxi Companies’ Shares Rise on Receding Worries About U.S. Sanctions WSJ

 

💥 UN rights chief says China committing violations in Xinjiang, Tibet Reuters

 

💥 Europe to battle with US for aluminum if EU opts for Russian ban Reuters

 

💥 China’s ‘two sessions’ 2024: top legislature vows to overcome US tech and science sanctions SCMP

Corruption & Financial Crime

 

💸 Barbecue mob boss terrorizing Haiti burns victims alive and feeds corpses to animals Daily Star

 

💸 Ecuador detains 12 people, including judges, in organized crime investigation Reuters

 

💸 Former Venezuelan military official pleads guilty to bribery Miami Herald

 

💸 An online protest movement exposes corruption in Uganda AP

Terror

 

🔥 Illegal migrant on terror watchlist arrested at Eagle Pass days before Trump, Biden visits NYP

 

🔥 4 teens arrested for planning terrorist attack in Brussels Politico

 

🔥 Britain’s terror threat ‘highest since 9/11’ as insider warns of ‘real risk’ of attack Sun

 

🔥 Teen suspect in stabbing of Jewish man in Zurich expressed solidarity with Islamic State ABC

Crypto & Cyber

 

🔐 American Express credit cards exposed in third-party data breach Bleepingcomputer

 

🔐 Hackers exploited Windows 0-day for 6 months after Microsoft knew of it Ars

 

🔐 North Korea hacks two South Korean chip firms to steal engineering data Bleepingcomputer

 

🔐 Retired Army officer charged with sharing classified information about Ukraine on foreign dating site CBS

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