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🤷‍♀️ What now?: Be sure to check the website you’re on each time you enter your credentials. Check it carefully because there could be a misspelling or Cyrillic font.

Meanwhile … Coinbase says hackers bribed staff to steal customer data and are demanding $20 million ransom

📰 Headline Highlights

• Hackers hijack Japanese financial accounts to conduct nearly $2 billion in trades

• Education giant Pearson hit by cyberattack exposing customer data

• ASCENSION REVEALS PERSONAL DATA OF 437,329 PATIENTS EXPOSED IN CYBERATTACK

• 23andMe customers have until July 14 to file claims

• Bluetooth 6.1 enhances privacy with randomized RPA timing

• You think ransomware is bad now? Wait until it infects CPUs

• Security Firm Andy Frain Says 100,000 People Impacted by Ransomware Attack

• Alabama says ‘cybersecurity event’ could disrupt state government services

• Steel giant Nucor Corporation facing disruptions after cyberattack

• Dior Confirms Data Breach Affecting Customer Information

• New Intel CPU flaws leak sensitive data from privileged memory

In other news, How North Korean scammers land lucrative remote jobs at top firms

GOOD READ: 'They yanked their own plug': How Co-op averted an even worse cyber attack

The week started out busy. We thought we might have difficulty figuring out how to fit it all in one week but we did it. Rest assure we didn’t have to weigh which story to axe and which to keep.

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Glossary/Legend:

• Cyrillic - denoting the alphabet used by many Slavic peoples, chiefly those with a historical allegiance to the Orthodox Church. Ultimately derived from Greek uncials, it is now used for Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Ukrainian, and some other Slavic languages.

• Cyberattack - A malicious attempt to gain unauthorized access to a computer system, network, or device. The goal of a cyberattack is to disrupt or damage the target, or to steal data, intellectual property, or money.

• Malware (short for malicious software) - refers to any intrusive software developed by cybercriminals (often called hackers) to steal data and damage or destroy computers and computer systems.

• Ransomware - A type of malware that locks or encrypts a victim's files and demands a ransom payment to unlock and decrypt them. Ransomware can infect a variety of devices, including computers, smartphones, printers, and more.

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