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Telecom Egypt, a government-owned entity, has been redirecting Egyptian internet users to malware used to mine cryptocurrency or display certain advertisements, according to a report published by security researchers at the University of Toronto. In the report released on 9 March, researchers discovered the use of "deep packet inspection (DPI) middleboxes" used to "hijack Egyptian Internet users’ unencrypted web connections en masse, and redirect the users to revenue-generating content such as affiliate ads and browser cryptocurrency mining scripts." The researchers called…
