Two U.S. Coast Guard fast response cutters arrived in Beirut, Lebanon for a scheduled port visit July 25.

Major traffic accident on Al-Matn highway between a truck and 14 other cars.

Report: The Israeli army fired flares over the Lebanese Palestinian border.

Update: The kidnapped is a Syrian businessman living in the UAE.

No Saudi national is involved.

According to reports, no Lebanese official or mandated official delegation was present at the airport to welcome the Lebanese basketball team back from the Asian Basketball Cup.

🛑 For those in Lebanon: Update your Chrome browser to patch up a vulnerability used by Israel, and recently discovered, targeting mostly Lebanese.

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Long queues of Syrian refugees and Lebanese at a bakery in Tyre to purchase bread.

Chouf: The Lebanese army arrested 10 Palestinians and two Syrians for loitering while abusing drugs and alcohol.

Intial: Hebrew sources: Settlers detained a Lebanese citizen after crossing the Lebanese border into occupied Palestine.

No Israeli army statement yet.

⋯ He was arrested near the village of Margaliot and has since been handed to the Israeli army.

He likely attempted to enter Israel yesterday, which prompted the enemy to fire flares over the border.

⋯ Update: The Lebanese is called Ali Marei.

He crossed the border twice in 2018 near the Fatima Gate and reached Kiryat Shmona on foot.

⁠The Return of Candiru

On 21 July, cybersecurity company Avast reported that the Israeli spyware company, Candiru, was behind the DevilsTongue malware that has targeted dozens of journalists in Lebanon, Turkey, Yemen, and Palestine.

The exploit runs on Chromium (Chrome, Brave, Microsoft Edge) via a memory corruption bug on WebRTC, an API protocol for browsers. It was patched by Google on 4 ⁠July 2022.

DevilsTongue has resurfaced: it had worked in 2021 on a large Windows memory corruption bug. Users were infected after visiting malicious single-use URLs. Research laboratory CitizenLab wrote in 2021 that there was code for “exfiltrating files, exporting all messages saved in the Windows version of the [app] Signal, and stealing cookies and passwords from Chrome, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and Opera browsers.”

Israel sent a warning to Hezbullah through diplomatic and military channels, threatening Hezbullah with a harsh military response if it dares to attack the ships that will extract gas from Karish in September.

The UK-owned Stena IceMax drillship has passed line 29 and is now at the Karish North 01 discovery well.

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The Minister of Economy, Amin Salam, was quoted as saying that the purpose of the 150 million dollars loan is to prepare for lifting subsidies on bread after 9 months.

Bread, which is now being sold for 16,000 LBP, is expected to rise several folds, crossing 40,000 LBP.

According to journalists, after MP Cynthia Zarazir found inside her office condoms and Playboy magazines, she alleges that it was occupied by “B.H.”, a member of the Future Movement party.