Monday gets tough for Thailand authorities as they could be staring at the largest data leak in the country's public health sector. A California city and the election body of the Philippines were hit by an extensive data breach exposing the personal records of many individuals. Meanwhile, the U.S. Cyber Command has joined hands with educational institutions to prepare talent for different cyber roles. Let’s read further for the top ten cybersecurity events from the weekend.
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Approximately 39 million medical records of Bangkok-based Siriraj Hospital were discovered for sale in the underground marketplace. The leak also includes data of VIP patients.
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The City of Grass Valley, California, disclosed adversaries may have obtained personal information, including SSNs, license numbers, and other information of several individuals.
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The Commission on Elections, Philippines, suffered a breach and lost nearly 60GB of data to hackers, just four months before the national elections.
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Researchers at F5 Networks observed a new version of the FluBot malware, camouflaged as Flash Player, to target Android users.
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The FBI warned the U.S. defense sector against threats from the FIN7 cybercriminal group who is mailing ransomware-loaded USB flash drives with the LilyGO logo.
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Cybercriminals were found targeting researchers and developers in the cybersecurity space as they distributed fake dnSpy application on GitHub to deploy RATs and cryptominers.
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Cado Security confirmed a link between the Abcbot botnet and cryptojacking cybercriminal group Xanthe after analyzing similarities within the code and feature-sets of both malware families.
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U.S. Cyber Command announced a partnership with 84 colleges and universities from 34 states and the District of Columbia to bridge the cybersecurity talent gap in the U.S. military.
09
China issued a warning to Walmart after security agencies in the country reported nineteen flaws in the networks of the American multinational retail corporation.
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Biometric authentication solution provider iProov raised $70 million in growth funding from Sumeru Equity Partners.
