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According to the Agency, a massive ransomware hacking attack has compromised thousands of computers around the world, reports the Euro Weekly News. Servers have been compromised globally, including in the US, Canada, Finland, and France, as per Italian news outlet ANSA, citing the ACN. Moreover, the report said that organisations throughout Italy are very likely to have been affected by this attack.

Microsoft security researchers discovered a vulnerable open-source component in the "Boa web server" still being used in routers, security cameras and popular software development kits (SDKs), despite its retirement in 2005. Tata Power last month admitted it was hit by a cyber attack on its IT infrastructure. The power company, however, said that all its critical operational systems were functioning normally.

From July 2021 to June 2022, the tech giant's digital defence teams blocked 34.7 billion identity threats and 37 billion email threats.

Researchers at cyber-security firm ESET posted a screenshot on Twitter that showed fake job listings from leading crypto exchange Coinbase by Lazarus, famous for spreading the WannaCry ransomware globally in 2017.

The hacker claims the information includes names, addresses, National ID numbers and mobile phone numbers. Cyber-security experts have verified that at least some of a small sample of the data offered is real. The 23 terabytes of data is thought to be the largest ever sale of data on record and was being offered for $200,000 until the post was removed on Friday.

The national cyber-security agency listed 15 vulnerabilities based on evidence that threat actors are actively exploiting them. These types of vulnerabilities are a frequent attack vector for malicious cyber actors of all types and pose significant risk to the federal enterprise. One of the vulnerabilities, a Microsoft Windows SAM local privilege escalation vulnerability, has a remediation date of February 24.

The company said it manages an infrastructure that allows smart contracts to scale and travel through heterogeneous blockchain networks. The Meter network, as well as the Moonriver network, were affected by the hack, reports ZDNet. Blockchain research company PeckShield confirmed that 1391 ETH and 2.74 BTC were stolen during the incident, the report said.

The incident began on August 1, 2021, when Morley's data became unavailable. Michigan-based Morley thereafter began collecting contact information needed to provide notice to potentially affected 521,046 individuals, which was completed in early 2022, the company said last week. Some of them had their Social Security numbers leaked in the attack.

The alleged hacking of Lama Fakih, a US-Lebanese citizen and director of crisis and conflict at HRW, marks the latest example of how NSO's powerful surveillance tool, Pegasus, has been used by the company's clients to target campaigners and journalists, the report said. HRW said that Fakih had been alerted by Apple on 24 November 2021 that her personal iPhone could be under state-sponsored attack.

According to the Red Cross, a sophisticated cyber security attack against computer servers hosting information was detected this week. The data originated from at least 60 Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies around the world.