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Midweek Roundup: Iran Central Bank Cyber-attacked, Third-Party Databases Aid Authoritarians, and More

Iran's central bank and other financial institutions in the Islamic Republic have been hit by a massive cyberattack, the Saudi-affiliated news outlet Iran International reported. More Autocratic regimes that crack down on overseas dissidents by blacklisting them as terrorist financiers are getting an inadvertent assist from third-party screening databases used by financial institutions, ACAMS moneylaundering.com reported. More Russia has received $2.3 billion of dollars and euros since the beginning of 2022 from Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and other countries despite Western embargos prohibiting currency exports to Moscow, Reuters reported. More Britain's new Labour government have given financial crime watchers...

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