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2026-10-02
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FinCEN's proposed ban on Russia's A7 Network would also blacklist any company A7 controls, without naming a single one
FinCEN, the Treasury bureau that writes anti-money-laundering rules, proposed barring US funds transfers involving the sub-agents of the A7 Network, a Russia-tied payments service, and would treat any transaction with a company A7 controls as a money-laundering concern.
United States
A Senate bill would make your company criminally liable when an AI agent it runs breaks into someone else's system
Senators Josh Hawley and Chris Murphy introduced legislation imposing criminal and civil liability on both the developers and the operators of AI agents that break into other systems on their own.
Around the World
A breach at a Polish invoicing platform used by 600,000 businesses gave attackers live, password-free access into customers' accounting systems
Fakturownia, a Polish online invoicing service, detected unauthorized access on September 30 and confirmed that customer bank details and integration tokens were exposed.
Germany's top industry federation, the BDI, is demanding legal clarity on who is liable when Russian sabotage hits a company
German political and security authorities expect cyberattacks and sabotage attributed to Russia to increase, and they think assassination attempts are possible.
Trump says he'll threaten to ban US diesel exports if France and Germany won't release their emergency diesel reserves
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent urged European governments to release diesel volumes immediately, and Trump said he would threaten an export ban if France and Germany refuse.
Iran exported no crude at all in September as Hormuz traffic fell to one observed ship in a day and a half
Bloomberg's ship-tracking sources put Iran's September crude loadings at zero, down from about 250,000 barrels a day in August, and Al Jazeera, reading vessel-tracking data, counted a single transit of the Strait of Hormuz between Thursday midnight and Friday evening.
A leaked Kremlin planning document shows Russia's own sanctions-evasion math with Iran falling short of Putin's public claims
A leaked Russian government roadmap approved in September 2024, obtained by Fox News, puts the actual share of Russia-Iran trade settled in rubles and rials at 68%, and sets an internal 2026 target of only 71%.
Iran's business press is calling the near-total halt of Hormuz shipping a self-imposed rule, not the tanker attacks Western reporting describes
Donya-e-Eqtesad, Iran's largest economic daily, relayed the Al Jazeera count of a single vessel transiting the Strait of Hormuz over a day and a half, and attributed the stoppage to Iranian enforcement against ships breaking Iranian regulations.
Russia told NATO in writing it would use nuclear weapons if the alliance cut off Kaliningrad, its exclave between Poland and Lithuania
An unsigned Russian government paper delivered to NATO, the kind governments use to float a position without formally owning it, says Russia is ready to use its full arsenal, nuclear weapons included, if alliance members try to cut Kaliningrad off from the rest of Russia.