News of the Week for 10 October 2020

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