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Several companies, including IQVIA, the firm managing AstraZeneca's COVID vaccine trial, and Bristol Myers Squibb, which is leading a group of companies in developing a quick coronavirus test, have been affected by a ransomware attack on Windows systems at Philadelphia firm eResearchTechnology.

The US Government claims that a number of top Chinese companies, including telecommunications equipment maker Huawei and video surveillance firm Hikvision, are owned or controlled by the Chinese military, Reuters reports.

A new variant of the Philadelphia ransomware is targeting the healthcare sector in the US, researchers from the security firm Forcepoint have found.