22/04/18

[Maik]

Panathinaikos football club to be sold to Asian Fund!

Panathinaikos football will be turning a new leaf in its history, as the club will be changing hands after the current owner Giannis Alafouzos has reportedly agreed to the proposal submitted by Thai businessman Pairoj Piempongsant, founder and senior partner of Empire Asia Group for the sale of the club. Mr Piempongsant has submitted a proposal on behalf of Pan Asia Fund and Mr Alafouzos has agreed in a letter to the terms of the offer.

http://en.protothema.gr/panathinaikos-football-club-to-be-sold-to-asian-fund/

[Maik]

Over 20 Million Users Installed Malicious Ad Blockers From Chrome Store

If you have installed any of the below-mentioned Ad blocker extension in your Chrome browser, you could have been hacked.

A security researcher has spotted five malicious ad blockers extension in the Google Chrome Store that had already been installed by at least 20 million users.

*   AdRemover for Google Chrome™ (10 million+ users)
*   uBlock Plus (8 million+ users)
*   [Fake] Adblock Pro (2 million+ users)
*   HD for YouTube™ (400,000+ users)
*  Webutation (30,000+ users)

https://thehackernews.com/2018/04/adblocker-chrome-extention.html

uBlock Plus - not to be confused with Adblock Plus or uBlock / uBlock Origin

[Maik]

Opinion article in the Guardian, bit of a long read but it's almost funny:

Britain, headquarters of fraud
The UK is at the centre of global corruption: shell companies that launder dirty money can be set up with ease. But when a whistleblower showed just how easy it is, he faced the full force of the law

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/22/the-sunday-essay-britain-headquarters-of-fraud

[expat]

Perhaps they took lessons from the Greeks! how an EU grant can lead to a new Mercedes