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En brittisk regeringsrapport om egyptiska Muslimska brödraskapet har försenats på grund av att ministrar och tjänstemän är oeniga om slutsatserna, skriver Financial Times med hänvisning till officiella källor.

Rivalerna om statsministerposten, Fredrik Reinfeldt (M) och Stefan Löfven (S), såg olika på hur ungdomsarbetslösheten ska bekämpas när de drabbade samman i SVT:s valduell på söndagskvällen. Moderatledaren och statsministern Reinfeldt angrep Socialdemokraternas ledare för att vilja höja krogmomsen och de nedsatta arbetsgivaravgifterna för unga.

Den pakistanske oppositionsledaren Imran Kahn uppmanar sina anhängare att bilda en rörelse för civil olydnad för att fälla regeringen. Den före detta cricketstjärnan vädjar också till allmänheten att sluta betala hyror och skatter till den nuvarande regeringen. Khan anklagar premiärminister Nawaz Sharif för att roffa åt sig nationella tillgångar för att stärka sitt eget affärsimperium.

Rivalerna om statsministerposten, Fredrik Reinfeldt (M) och Stefan Löfven (S), såg olika på hur ungdomsarbetslösheten ska bekämpas när de drabbade samman i SVT:s valduell på söndagskvällen. Moderatledaren och statsministern Reinfeldt angrep Socialdemokraternas ledare för att vilja höja krogmomsen och de nedsatta arbetsgivaravgifterna för unga.

Trailrunner7 writes The GameOver Zeus malware had a nice run for itself, making untold millions of dollars for its creators. But it was a run that ended with a multi-continent operation from law enforcement and security researchers to disassemble the infrastructure. Now researchers have identified a new variant of the Cridex malware that has adopted some of the techniques that made GOZ so successful in its day. Researchers at IBM's X-Force research team have seen a new version of Cridex, which is also known as Bugat and Feodo, using some of the same techniques that GOZ used to such good effect. Specifically, the new strain of malware has adopted GOZ's penchant for using HTML injections, and the researchers say the technique is nearly identical to the way that GOZ handled it. "There are two possible explanations for this. First, someone from the GOZ group could have moved to the Bugat team. This would not be the first time something like this has happened, which we've witnessed in other cases involving Zeus and Citadel; however, it is not very likely in this case since Bugat and GOZ are essentially competitors, while Zeus and Citadel are closely related. The second and more likely explanation is that the Bugat team could have analyzed and perhaps reversed the GOZ malware before copying the HTML injections that made GOZ so highly profitable for its operators," Etay Maor, a senior fraud prevention strategist at IBM, wrote in an analysis of the new malware.

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Trailrunner7 writes The GameOver Zeus malware had a nice run for itself, making untold millions of dollars for its creators. But it was a run that ended with a multi-continent operation from law enforcement and security researchers to disassemble the infrastructure. Now researchers have identified a new variant of the Cridex malware that has adopted some of the techniques that made GOZ so successful in its day. Researchers at IBM's X-Force research team have seen a new version of Cridex, which is also known as Bugat and Feodo, using some of the same techniques that GOZ used to such good effect. Specifically, the new strain of malware has adopted GOZ's penchant for using HTML injections, and the researchers say the technique is nearly identical to the way that GOZ handled it. "There are two possible explanations for this. First, someone from the GOZ group could have moved to the Bugat team. This would not be the first time something like this has happened, which we've witnessed in other cases involving Zeus and Citadel; however, it is not very likely in this case since Bugat and GOZ are essentially competitors, while Zeus and Citadel are closely related. The second and more likely explanation is that the Bugat team could have analyzed and perhaps reversed the GOZ malware before copying the HTML injections that made GOZ so highly profitable for its operators," Etay Maor, a senior fraud prevention strategist at IBM, wrote in an analysis of the new malware.