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Car manufacturer Nissan has revealed that its systems in Australia and New Zealand have been affected by a network incident.

Stevedore DP World Australia says the group that attacked the company either accessed or stole data from its corporate network.

Victims of the ransomware group Cl0p, attacked using vulnerabilities in the secure managed file transfer software MOVEit Transfer, now number 730, according to a count kept by the New Zealand-headquartered security firm Emsisoft.

The golden age of Windows ransomware appears to be here, judging by the statistics provided by content delivery network Akamai in its latest State of the Internet report that spans the period from October 2021 to the end of May 2023.

The number of organisations hit by the ransomware group Cl0p using vulnerabilities in the secure managed file transfer software MOVEit Transfer is now 546, the security firm Emsisoft reports, estimating that more than 37 million individuals are now affected.

American government services contractor Maximus, which also operates in Canada, Australia and the UK, has informed the SEC of a data breach in which the personal data of between eight and 11 million people has been stolen.

Windows ransomware group Cl0p has released some of the data it stole from consultancy firm PwC on the clear web. The attackers have claimed to be in possession of 121GB of data plus archives.

New York-based firm Estee Lauder Companies has suffered a network breach of some of its systems, a statement from the company says.

The number of companies and organisations that have been breached through a vulnerability in the secure managed file transfer software MOVEit Transfer has now reached 378, figures compiled by the security firm Emsisoft show.

Australian firm Fortescue Metals Group, one of the world’s largest and lowest cost producers of iron ore which is transitioning into a global green energy and metals company, has been hit by a data breach with the ransomware group Cl0p claiming it was behind the intrusion.

Less than three hours after the Medibank Group told iTWire it had not been affected by the ongoing ransomware attacks by the Cl0p group, the company told another media outlet that it had indeed been affected.

The Medibank Group is again in the news in connection with an intrusion, though this time the company says it has not been affected.

A number of US Federal Government agencies have been breached through a vulnerability in the secure managed file transfer software MOVEit Transfer, a report claims.

Data theft using a zero-day in the secure managed file transfer software MOVEit Transfer has been claimed to be carried out by the Cl0p ransomware group, with the incidents starting on 27 May.

The Tasmanian Government says it may have lost data in a breach effected by a Windows ransomware gang through a file-sharing service known as GoAnywhere MFT.

Data stolen during an attack on Singapore's multinational telecommunications conglomerate Singtel, which the company says was exfiltrated on 20 January last year, has been lying on the dark Web since February 2021 and was reposted to a clear Web forum on 7 October, a security professional says.

Security firm Qualys has become the latest to be affected by a breach of a file transfer system manufactured by the firm Accellion, the company says.

The Australian Cyber Security Centre has issued a warning to the health sector, saying it has seen increased targeting by attackers using the SDBBot remote access trojan.

Cyber criminals who attacked the Germany-based global enterprise software company Software AG using the Windows Cl0p ransomware on 3 October have leaked a large amount of data, that was stolen during the attack, on the dark web.