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Payment gateways are necessary for any business that wants to accept online credit card payments. The technology circulates financial data around to the necessary entities to authorise payments and move money from a customer to a merchant. When choosing the best payment gateway, it’s important to consider pricing and fees, integrations, security, and other factors:

Pricing and fees

The cost factors for payment gateways are the subscription fees and the payment processing fees. The subscription fees are the monthly fees that the payment gateway charges, and the payment processing fees are the fees that the payment gateway charges for each transaction. Some payment portals don’t charge a monthly fee and charge a higher transaction fee instead.

You can expect to pay £20 to…

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Ransomware/Malware Activity

Anti-Cheat, Code-Signed Driver Abused to Bypass Privileges and Deploy Ransomware

Trend Micro researchers observed a ransomware infection in late July 2022 that involved a code-signed driver called “mhyprot2.sys”, which is used for anti-cheat functions in the video game Genshin Impact. The currently undisclosed ransomware abused this driver to bypass privileges and disable anti-virus software. A notable observation by researchers is that Genshin Impact does not need to be installed on a victim’s machine for this ransomware to be deployed, as the use of the driver is independent from the video game and can be integrated into any malware. Since the driver is code-signed, it can be installed on Windows machines without creating alerts often seen with unsigned…

SUMMARY

The Regional Sub-Window (RSW) for Refugees and Host Communities was introduced as a dedicated financing instrument to support low-income refugee-hosting countries under the 18th Replenishment of the International Development Association (IDA18), with $2 billion to benefit IDA countries hosting refugees from July 1, 2017, to June 30, 2020. By the end of the replenishment cycle, 14 countries had received funding for relevant projects.i Among these, 9 countries are scaling up refugees’ access to government social protection programs in host countries through 10 projects with an overall budget of $US626 million via the RSW, representing about 31 percent of the total SubWindow budget. Dedicated financing supporting refugee-hosting IDA countries was continued under the 19th…