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Malicious attackers claim to have staged an attack on the website of Cooke County in Texas using the REvil ransomware and have posted screenshots of what they claim are documents and data from the county's police department on the dark web.

Cyber criminals claim to have used the Maze ransomware, that can be used to compromise Windows systems, to infiltrate the systems of multinational South Korean electronics giant LG Electronics and siphon off source code for one of the company's "big products".

A well-known security researcher has pointed out a major flaw in an article about hacking published by the Australian Financial Review on 26 June: its over-eagerness in attributing attacks, when that is the toughest part of a threat analyst's job.