Hospitals pay ransom in bitcoin, illegitimate news sites, clinical trials were hacked, so as the UN, and an ISP Apologies, all this week.

– www.uhsinc.com: Statement from Universal Health Services: Updated Monday, October 5, 2020, 12:30 PM ET

– www.zdnet.com: Microsoft’s Azure AD authentication outage: What went wrong

– www.bleepingcomputer.com: New Jersey hospital paid ransomware gang $670K to prevent data leak

– www.bleepingcomputer.com: Massachusetts school district shut down by ransomware attack

– arstechnica.com: Botched Excel import may have caused loss of 15,841 UK COVID-19 cases

– www.nytimes.com: Clinical Trials Hit by Ransomware Attack on Health Tech Firm

– www.meritalk.com: DHS Sees No Threat to Vote Tallies, Warns of Election Outcome Lag

– www.cyberscoop.com: SEC settles with trader accused of illegal trades using hacked data

– thehill.com: US seizes 92 domains used by Iran for ‘global disinformation campaign’

– www.infosecurity-magazine.com: UN Shipping Agency Forced Offline After Cyber-Attack

– www.theregister.com: Aussie telco Telstra says soz after accidentally diverting traffic meant for encrypted email biz through its servers

– threatpost.com – Amazon Prime Day Spurs Spike in Phishing, Fraud Attacks

– www.fbi.gov: The China Threat: Foreign Intelligence Services Use Social Media Sites to Target People with Security Clearances

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