00:00Israel and Iran traded airstrikes early Friday in the midst of a war that has sent shockwaves
00:06through the global economy and risks drawing Iran's Arab neighbors directly into the conflict.
00:11The exchange came as millions of Iranians observed Nauru's, the Persian New Year holiday
00:17and tradition dating back millennia. As Israel pounded Tehran with airstrikes, activists
00:23reported hearing strikes around the capital Tehran and many Iranians stayed indoors abandoning
00:30the usual travel or gatherings this year. In Israel, local media reported blasts across
00:35Jerusalem with sirens and booms sounding across the city. The new attacks came a day after
00:42Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged to refrain from more strikes on a key Iranian
00:47gas field.
01:00Meanwhile, Iran stepped up its attacks on its Gulf neighbors with the United Arab Emirates
01:05UAE reporting heavy explosions in Dubai early Friday as its air defenses intercepted incoming
01:12fire over the city. Authorities in Kuwait reported two oil refineries on fire and Saudi Arabia
01:18said its Samref refinery in the Red Sea port city of Yambu was hit. Iran's attacks, which
01:25it calls, quote, retaliatory, came as Muslims observed Ida Fattir at the end of the Holy Muslim
01:31fasting month of Ramadan and Mosque across the Middle East made their first call to prayers.
01:43Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban raised the prospect of further actions against Ukraine
01:48on Friday, a day after he doubled down on his veto against the European Union's 90 billion
01:56oil blockage.
01:58We have a few other tools.
02:03We have 40% of Ukrainian energy, sorry, the oil energy levels go through Hungary.
02:09That's what we need to do with it. We need to send a new sanctions groups.
02:14We want the unity of the unity. We won't leave it. We will leave it.
02:19In the next seven years, we want to give Ukraine money. We don't leave it.
02:27Tensions between Hungary and Ukraine have escalated in recent weeks into a bitter feud
02:33over Hungary's access to Russian oil through the Drushba pipeline,
02:36which was damaged in what Ukraine says was a Russian drone strike.
02:40Orbán, however, insists that Ukraine has purposely sabotaged the pipeline
02:44to orchestrate an energy crisis ahead of a tight election.
02:49EU leaders rebuked what they called unacceptable behavior by Hungary akin to blackmail
02:54following an EU summit on Thursday, accusing Orbán of holding up critical aid
02:59and undermining EU decision-making in an effort to win an election at home.
03:08The French Navy intercepted and boarded a tanker in the Mediterranean Sea on Friday.
03:14President Emmanuel Macron said it is linked to Russia's sanctioned Shadow Fleet,
03:19which ships oil in violation of international sanctions over Moscow's war on Ukraine.
03:23The tanker, Dana, is suspected of operating under a false flag designation.
03:28The interception took place in the Western Mediterranean
03:31and was carried out in cooperation with allies such as the United Kingdom.
03:35The tanker was diverted and escorted by the French Navy to an anchorage point for further checks.
03:41The case was referred to a prosecutor in the port of Marseille.
03:49Two of the world's largest bot networks were shut down in a major international operation.
03:55German, US and Canadian cybercrime specialists joined forces to dismantle ISURU and Kim Wolf,
04:02suspected of being behind major online attacks.
04:05A botnet is a network of computers or connected devices that have been infected with malware
04:10and are controlled secretly by an operator who uses them for malicious purposes like attacks or data theft.
04:17ISURU consisted of a network of several million compromised online devices,
04:22such as routers and webcams, according to a statement.
04:25The Kim Wolf botnet involved several million infected devices, primarily Android TV boxes.
04:31Two suspected administrators of the networks, who reside in Germany and Canada,
04:37have been identified and now face legal consequences.
04:40The cybercriminals extorted their victims,
04:42who in some cases suffered losses of tens of thousands of dollars.
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