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The United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS) 111 emergency services are affected by a significant and ongoing outage. It was triggered by a cyberattack that hit the systems of Advanced, a British managed services provider (MSP).

German electronics manufacturer Semikron has reported that they were hit by a ransomware attack. The LV ransomware group has claimed responsibility for this attack, and is threatening to leak 2 TB worth of stolen data if their ransom demands are not met.

The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang claims to have stolen more than 150 GB of data from Creos Luxembourg S.A., a company which manages natural gas pipelines and electrical networks in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. The alleged stolen data consists of 180,000 files, including contracts, agreements, passports, bills and emails.

Researchers have observed a new post-exploitation attack framework in the wild. Manjusaka, as it's called, can be deployed as an alternative to the popular Cobalt Strike toolset ⁠— or parallel to it for redundancy.

A new report from Palo Alto's Unit 42 found it only takes 15 minutes after the publication of a new CVE for the first cybercriminals to begin scanning potentially vulnerable targets. Within a few hours, the first active exploitation attempts have already started.

Security researchers have discovered that QBot malware is now using the legitimate Windows Calculator app for DLL side-loading attacks. The method continues to be used in current malspam campaigns.

The Canadian town of St. Marys, Ontario, has been hit by a ransomware attack that locked staff out of internal systems and encrypted data. The small town of around 7,500 residents appears to be the second such target to be attacked by LockBit in just over a week.