https://www.stripes.com/news/middle-east/iranian-hackers-accidentally-leak-hack-training-videos-1.638007

LONDON (Tribune News Service) — Iranian hackers accidentally leaked videos showing themselves teaching junior hackers how to break into email accounts and siphon data from them, it has been revealed.

Employees at IBM's X-Force, the company behind the discovery, say that five hours of footage – recorded directly from the screen – has been obtained along with 40 gigabytes of information and data stolen from victim accounts.

The reports suggested that the files were uploaded accidentally to an exposed server in May that was being monitored by IBM.

"We don't get this kind of insight into how threat actors operate really ever," Allison Wikoff, a senior analyst at IBM X-Force, told Wired magazine.

"When we talk about observing hands-on activity, it's usually from incident response engagements or endpoint monitoring tools," she said, adding that, "Very rarely do we actually see the adversary on their own desktop. It's a whole other level of 'hands-on-keyboard' observation."

Among the targeted accounts were staffers at the U.S. State Department, an Iranian-American philanthropist, as well as U.S. and Greek military personnel.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20200718-rouhani-says-25-million-iranians-infected-with-covid-19/

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday that 25 million Iranians have been infected with the coronavirus and that another 35 million are at risk of acquiring it.

The figures, which Rouhani said were based on a new Health Ministry report, are far higher Iran’s official toll of 269,440 infected. Rouhani in a televised speech did not address the discrepancy.

Iran, with a population of more than 80 million, has been the Middle East country’s hardest hit by the epidemic.

“Our estimate is that as of now 25 million Iranians have been infected with this virus and about 14,000 have lost their dear lives,” Rouhani said in the speech.

“There is the possibility that between 30 and 35 million other people will be at risk,” he said.

“In total, more than 200,000 people have been hospitalised,” he said.

The Health Ministry on Friday said 13,791 people had died from COVID-19.

https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/oil-pipeline-explodes-in-west-iran-report-635506

An oil pipeline exploded as a resounding boom was heard in Ahwaz in the western Khuzestan Province in Iran, according to Iranian media. No official report has confirmed that the oil pipeline was the source of the explosion as of yet.

Numerous explosions have been heard throughout Iran in the past few weeks.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/18/kanye-west-petition-south-carolina-ballot-2020

Kanye West has asked fans to sign a petition calling for him to be added to the presidential election ballot in South Carolina.

The rap superstar announced he was running for the White House on 4 July, tweeting: “We must now realize the promise of America by trusting God, unifying our vision and building our future. I am running for president of the United States.”

But doubts persist over how seriously to take his bid.

West, who has both expressed support for Donald Trump and said he has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, has said he will model his White House on a fictional land in the Black Panther superhero film, saying: “Let’s get back to Wakanda.”