Attackers who hit the New York-based entertainment and media lawyers Grubman Shire Meiselas & Sacks using the REvil ransomware that attacks Windows systems have threatened to sell data on celebrities like singer Nicki Minaj, basketball star LeBron James and singer Mariah Carey through an acution process on 1 July.

The Indian conglomerate Indiabulls, which is involved in financial services, real estate, pharmaceutical products, leasing of construction equipment, LED lights and facilities, has been hit by an attack of the CLOP ransomware that affects computers running Microsoft's Windows operating system.

The global cyber security market grew by 9.7% for the first quarter of 2020 year-on-year, the technology analyst firm Canalys says, but adds that this trend is unlikely to continue for the remainder of the year as IT budgets come under increasing pressure due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The US has suspended the issue of green cards and new H-1B visas in a move that has been slammed by the IT industry, a sector that depends on H-1B holders to carry out a sizeable amount of work.

Electromagnetic energy (EME) levels at radio transmitters for mobile phone services at small cell sites across Australia are very low, according to a new report by the telecommunications regulator ACMA.

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