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Merck settles with insurers regarding a $1.4 billion claim over NotPetya damages

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known as Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD) outside the United States and Canada, is an American multinational pharmaceutical company. It is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies globally, engaged in the research, development, manufacturing, and marketing of a wide range of healthcare products. Merck & Co., Merck filed a $1.4

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Why IDMP compliance requires adaptive data governance

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Pharmaceutical, biotech and medical devices firms, among others, must comply with a plethora of regulations. This requires every company to perform gap analysis to determine what is required and then update their systems, processes, workflows and data management strategy accordingly to ensure compliance.

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Resecurity Released a Status Report on Drug Trafficking in the Dark Web (2022-2023)

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The Resecurity® Hunter unit performed an extensive analysis of current trends and dynamics related to the underground economy around active DNMs leveraging technical means and human intelligence (HUMINT) sources. Resecurity noticed a sharp increase in demand for prescription pharmaceuticals.

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North Korea-linked Lazarus APT targets the COVID-19 research

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The attacks aimed at a Ministry of Health and a pharmaceutical company involved in the development of the COVID-19 vaccine. The systems at the pharmaceutical company were targeted with the BookCode malware, while in the attack against a Ministry of Health the APT group used the wAgent malware. .

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 423 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition

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Experts found new MOVEit Transfer SQL Injection flaws The University of Manchester suffered a cyber attack and suspects a data breach Russians charged with hacking Mt.

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Google warned users of 33,015 nation-state attacks since January

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Shane Huntley, Director at Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG), revealed that her team has shared its findings with the campaigns and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Google sent 11,856 government-backed phishing warnings during Q1 2020, 11,023 in Q2 2020, and 10,136 in Q3 2020. Tbps, the largest DDoS attack of ever.

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Chronicle experts spotted a Linux variant of the Winnti backdoor

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Chronicle researchers while investigating the cyber attack that hit the Bayer pharmaceutical company in April. “In April 2019, reports emerged of an intrusion involving Winnti malware at a German Pharmaceutical company.” ” reads the analysis published by Chronicle. samples designed specifically for Linux.”