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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.

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.

A new ransomware operation called RedAlert, or N13V, encrypts both Windows and Linux VMWare ESXi servers in attacks on corporate networks. The Linux encryptor is created to target VMware ESXi servers, with command-line options that allow the threat actors to shut down any running virtual machines before encrypting files.