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SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun arrived in Iran on Sunday to help try to restore a 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers and free up $7 billion in Iranian funds trapped in South Korea, Seoul officials said.
FILE PHOTO: South Korea s Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun speaks during an interview with Reuters in Seoul, South Korea, January 28, 2021. REUTERS/Heo Ran
Chung is the first South Korean prime minister to visit Iran in 44 years amid icy relations between the two countries due to Iran’s military cooperation with North Korea.
Tension rose after Iran seized a South Korean ship and its sailors in the Strait of Hormuz in January, accusing them of polluting the waters, and demanded South Korea release $7 billion in assets frozen in South Korean banks under U.S. sanctions.
U.S. President Joe Biden is nominating Chris Inglis to be the National Cyber Director and Jen Easterly to be director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the White House said on Monday.
Iran said on Monday it had identified the person who disrupted flow of power at the Natanz nuclear facility that led to electricity outage in the site, Iran's Nournews website quoted intelligence sources as saying.
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MOSCOW, April 12 (Reuters) - Russian bank account holders faced a rise in fraud in 2020, with the value of unauthorised transactions rising 52% to 9.8 billion roubles ($127 million), central bank data showed on Monday.
The pandemic has exacerbated cybersecurity concerns as online buying has increased.
The number of unauthorised transactions rose 34% to 773,008 in 2020, the central bank’s cyber security department said in a report.
Top lender Sberbank put the possible economic loss related to cyber crime at 3.5 trillion roubles in 2020.
$1 = 77.3300 roubles Reporting by Elena Fabrichnaya; writing by Andrey Ostroukh; editing by Jason Neely
Foreign spying and interference in Canada last year hit levels not seen since the Cold War, in part because of vulnerabilities caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the main Canadian spy agency said on Monday,