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A new threat campaign has seen cryptocurrency-mining malware distributed across at least 11 countries, disguised as translator apps and music download apps. The app itself provides the advertised functionality, but also hides a sneaky downloader.

The Dominican Republic's Instituto Agrario Dominicano (IAD) has suffered a ransomware attack by the Quantum group. According to the ransom note, at least four physical servers and eight virtual servers with the databases, applications and emails were compromised.

The RansomEXX ransomware gang is claiming responsibility for the cyberattack against Bombardier Recreational Products (BRP), which was disclosed by the company on August 8, 2022.

Greece's largest distributor of natural gas, National Natural Gas System Operator S.A. (or DEFSA), has stated that they've suffered a limited-scope data breach and IT system outage following a cyberattack. Further details were confirmed after their data was leaked by the Ragnar Locker ransomware gang.

South Staffordshire Water, a British company that supplies clean water to 1.6 million consumers, has confirmed that they were disrupted by a cyberattack. Fortunately, the attack only affected office IT systems and did not impact the water distribution systems, so the water supply is safe.

Cybercrime group RansomHouse claims to have compromised eight Italian districts. The group has published 2.1 TB of exfiltrated data from the IT infrastructures of the union of Tuscan municipalities, in the metropolitan city of Florence.

Argentina's Judiciary of Córdoba has shut down its IT systems and online portal after suffering a ransomware attack, claimed by the new 'PLAY' ransomware operation. The Judiciary confirmed that it has engaged with Microsoft, Cisco and other local specialists to investigate the attack.