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The Knauf Group, a German-based multinational producer of construction materials, has announced that it's been the target of a cyberattack. The incident took place on the night of June 29, forcing its global IT team to shut down email systems, although communications were still possible via mobile devices and Microsoft Teams.

An ongoing heatwave in Europe has sent temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius / 110 degrees Fahrenheit. Among other problems, this has stressed cooling systems at various data centers across the continent. Oracle and Google have both had to contend with heat-related failures in their UK cloud data centers.

In April 2022, ESET researchers found a yet-unknown backdoor on macOS. It was named CloudMensis due to the fact that it uses different public cloud storage for C2 communication. CloudMensis looks for different types of documents, captures keyboard input, searches local emails and can take screen captures.

The FBI, CISA and U.S. Department of the Treasury have issued a joint advisory warning of alleged North-Korean-backed threat actors using Maui ransomware in attacks against healthcare and public health (HPH) organizations.

The Japanese video game giant Bandai Namco, known for publishing franchises like Elden Ring, Pac-Man and Tekken, has been hit by BlackCat/AlphV ransomware.

SHI International, one of the world’s 15 largest IT service providers (with over 5,000 employees and annual sales of $12.3 billion in 2021), has fallen victim to a "coordinated and professional malware attack."

The U.S. offices of Macmillan, a publishing company with an annual revenue of over $500 million, have been hit by a cyberattack. Macmillan editors have lost access to their systems, emails and files, while book retailers nationwide were left unable to place new orders from the publisher.