Once cybercriminals gain access to confidential company data, they can use it for a range of malicious purposes. Now, the details of thousands of patients of Hammersmith Medicines Research was leaked by the Maze ransomware operators after they denied to pay the ransom. Meanwhile, another ransomware attack on Finastra, UK’s one of the top fintech companies, took down some of its servers offline. With that said, let’s glance through the top 10 cybersecurity highlights from the weekend.
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Maze ransomware actors published the personal details of thousands of former patients of the London-based Hammersmith Medicines Research (HMR) after the company declined to pay a ransom.
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Ransomware attackers targeted the UK fintech firm Finastra, causing shutdown of some of its servers. The firm currently serves more than 9,000 customers worldwide and has over 10,000 people staff.
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The myGov portal of the Australian federal government allegedly suffered a DDoS attack, during which its number of concurrent users jumped from an average of 6,000 to 55,000, while Australian citizens also flocked to sign up for income assistance in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Researchers reported a new Coronavirus phishing campaign that installs Netwalker ransomware, formerly called Mailto, while targeting the enterprise and government agencies.
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A Freedom of Information request revealed that nearly two million email-based cyberattacks targeted the National Gallery, UK, in 2019. The gallery hosts over five million visitors every year.
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Hackers exploited multiple zero-day vulnerabilities in digital video recorders manufactured by Taiwan-based LILIN for more than six months.
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The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Australia, announced that it will set up a multi-disciplinary cybersecurity research centre, to focus on the needs of businesses while investigating consumer concerns around trusting businesses with their data.
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KBR, a US engineering firm, was awarded a $26.8 million order to provide additional cybersecurity engineering support to the Engineering Directorate Cyber Systems Engineering Division of the U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC).
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Nemko Group acquired System Sikkerhet, a provider of assessment and consultancy services within the fields of information technology and cybersecurity.
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The governments of Singapore and Australia renewed an Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on improving cybersecurity cooperation through information sharing, joint cybersecurity exercises, training to develop awareness and skills, and regional confidence-building measures.
