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            <title><![CDATA[Investigation of banking hack leads to arrests in Europe, Brazil]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Germany’s federal police agency, the BKA, said three suspects were picked up in Europe and charged with fraud, and Brazil’s federal police said four others were arrested on similar charges.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[France investigates tax authority breach after hacker claims 600,000 victims]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[French authorities confirmed that someone gained unauthorized access to systems at the Directorate General of Public Finances in late June after stealing or misusing someone’s identity.
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            <title><![CDATA[New Mirai variant adds stealth capabilities to notorious botnet code]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Beyond Mirai’s usual functions, the new code features include encrypted communications with command-and-control servers and a “sniffer” that looks for default access credentials.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Trump taps cyber firms to go on offensive against criminals]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Trump administration will allow private companies to launch attacks on cybercrime organizations, the White House announced. 
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            <title><![CDATA[Germany moves to give spy agencies hacking and sabotage powers]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Germany’s cabinet approved legislation that would let its intelligence agencies hack foreign systems, sabotage adversaries’ supply chains and feed false information to extremists inside Germany, in the biggest overhaul of the country’s spy laws of the postwar era.]]></description>
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