Fortune 500 company Magellan Health Inc announced today that it was the victim of a ransomware attack on April 11, 2020, which led to the theft of personal information from one of its corporate servers.

Hackers working for the Chinese government are trying to steal valuable research on coronavirus vaccines and treatments from U.S. health care, pharmaceutical and research organizations, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security warned Wednesday.

A threat actor is selling twenty-nine databases on a hacker forum that allegedly contains a combined total of 550 million stolen user records. The actor began selling these databases on May 7th, when they posted them on a well-known hacker where threat actors can buy each one individually.

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, WHO has seen a dramatic increase in the number of cyber-attacks directed at its staff, and email scams targeting the public at large.

Over 500,000 Zoom accounts are being sold on the dark web and hacker forums for less than a penny each, and in some cases, given away for free.

The hack of employee web sites belonging to the San Francisco International Airport has been attributed
to a Russian hacker group who used the SMB protocol to steal Windows passwords.

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warned government agencies and health care organizations of ongoing BEC schemes exploiting the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as an overall increase in cryptocurrency and health care fraud scam activity targeting consumers.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission says that approximately $12 million were lost to Coronavirus-related scams according to consumer reports received since January 2020.

A Business Email Compromise (BEC) cybercrime group has started using coronavirus-themed scam emails that advantage of the COVID-19 global outbreak to convince potential victims to send payments to attacker-controlled accounts.

While the Coronavirus (COVID-19) is spreading on a global scale, hackers are launching Coronavirus-themed attacks against targets worldwide. Computer systems at the University Hospital Brno in the Czech Republic have been shut down on Friday due to a cyberattack that struck in the wee hours of the day.