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Activity Summary - Week Ending 26 February 2021:

• 600+ US healthcare data breaches in 2020
• Red Sky Alliance identified 35,139 connections from new unique IP addresses
• Analysts identified 2,378 new IP addresses participating in various Botnets
• Bazar Trojan Variant
• Malware Lingerie for 2021Valentine’s Day !!
• Silver Sparrow; aren’t Sparrows Brown?
• Pfizer, COVID Vaccine and Hacking
• LEON and Nocona Hospitals hit
• eHealth in Canada – Ryuk Ransomware
• France to invest 1 billion euros in Cyber Security –

Activity Summary - Week Ending 11 December 2020:

• Red Sky Alliance identified 49,028 connections from new unique IP addresses
• Analysts observed 66 unique email accounts compromised with Keyloggers
• Sality and Corkow has consistently remain the top Malware Variants
• Analysts identified 1,715 new IP addresses participating in various Botnets
• Ragnar Locker
• WatchBogMiner
• Leaking Browser URL and Protocol Handlers
• Malware targeting Synthetic DNA Orders to modify DNA strings sequence
• Covid-19 Rx. Researc

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