| http://www.forbes.com |
Hammersmith Medicines Research, a London-based coronavirus vaccine testing facility, was reportedly affected by ransomware. Given that the facility did not pay the ransom amount, personal records of thousands of patients’ information were published online. |
| http://www.msn.com |
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks were launched against the US Health and Human Services departmental servers. |
| http://www.reuters.com |
The World Health Organization (WHO) was reportedly targeted by an advanced persistent threat (APT) actor called DarkHotel, who attempted to steal the passwords of WHO members. |
| http://www.reuters.com |
E-mail accounts of several employees of Monte dei Paschi, an Italian state-owned bank, was reportedly hacked to gain access to sensitive information. |
| http://www.independent.co.uk |
Johns Hopkins University created a map to track global COVID-19 cases, but it was reportedly abused by cyber criminals to infect users and steal their passwords as soon as a user clicks on the map. |
| http://www.cnet.com |
A spyware campaign was reportedly launched through fake applications, such as corona live 1.1, to carry out surveillance activities. |
