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Over the past two months, we experienced several cyber-attacks here at the Alma Center, in which Iranians masqueraded as well-known researchers from Israel, England, Saudi Arabia and the USA, to infiltrate our information systems.
Except for one case in which the hackers impersonated the Saudi G-20 Summit secretariat, Dr. Hossa Al-Mutair, and invited the writer of this article for an alleged summit in Riyadh, in every other case, reports were sent to us, some of them original reports stolen from fellow research centers on which we were asked to provide our opinion. Providing opinions to one’s colleagues on their research reports is a common practice amongst researchers, so when we