Here are the business stories making the headlines across Aberdeen, Scotland and the UK this morning.
US strikes Iran ahead of midterm elections
The US has launched strikes on Iran's Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz, US officials have told CBS, the BBC's US partner.
Iranian state news agency IRNA reported several explosions on the island on Monday.
The US officials described the strikes as limited and said they were in response to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) firing upon a US aircraft.
North Korea denies being behind record $6.3bn Binance hack
North Korea has denied claims that it was behind the record $6.3bn (£4.7bn) hack of cryptocurrency exchange Binance, calling the allegations "absurd rhetoric".
Kim Yo Jong, a top Democratic People's Republic of Korea official and the sister of leader Kim Jong Un, said on Tuesday that the accusations are another "sinister attempt" by the US to damage Pyongyang's public image.
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Secret Service and cyber analysts have said North Korea orchestrated the hack, which has been described as the largest in history.
Read more on the BBC website.
Shop freezers in seven European countries hit by cyber-attack
Dozens of supermarkets across seven European countries have been hit by a cyber-attack affecting their refrigerators and freezers.
Around 40 Delhaize supermarkets in Belgium and Luxembourg were affected, while a smaller number of shops were hit in Sweden, Ireland, the Netherlands, Estonia and Finland.
Sabcobel, a Belgian company that manufactures some of the affected refrigerators, said the units' evaporators were switched to defrost mode, causing them to warm up, in what is believed to be the same method used in last month's incident that hit hundreds of French supermarkets.
Read the BBC article here.
Adult gaming centres bypass tax with business rates relief loophole
Hundreds of high-street gaming venues targeted by the chancellor in last week’s budget could continue to benefit from a tax loophole that will make them eligible for a discount on their business rates.
In measures announced by John Healey in his maiden budget last Wednesday, vape shops and adult gaming centres will be excluded from business rates relief offered to high-street retail hospitality and leisure businesses.
However, many adult gaming centres, which offer 24-hour gambling machines, could still be eligible for a discount on their business rates because they have bingo licences.
Read more in The Times.
Millionaire businessmen attack SNP over ‘ghost workers’ scandal
An SNP ban on compulsory redundancies leading to the employment of hundreds of public sector “ghost workers” amounts to a “slap in the face” to taxpayers, two of Scotland’s leading entrepreneurs have said.
Sir Tom Hunter and Lord Haughey, both self-made businessmen with an estimated combined net worth of more than £1bn, urged SNP ministers to look again at a policy which means that some staff have been employed for years after their jobs ceased to exist.
The Sunday Times revealed last month that there were around 800 cases of workers being employed on full pay and benefits who might otherwise have been made redundant.
Get the full story in The Times.