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Royal Dutch Shell is the latest corporation to be attacked by the Clop ransomware gang. It attempted to downplay the impact noting that "There is no evidence of any impact to Shell's core IT systems," and the server accessed was "Isolated from the rest of Shell's digital infrastructure." But it did acknowledge that the crooks had probably grabbed "Some personal data and... data from Shell companies and some of their stakeholders."

Accenture has entered into an agreement to acquire Cygni, a cloud native full-stack development firm that helps companies transform their business through advanced technical software development services and innovative technical solutions. Cygni will further enhance the global capabilities of Accenture Cloud First.

Morphisec, deployed on over 7 million endpoints, offers enterprises cyber prevention that automatically stops the most dangerous attacks in an automated and easy-to-manage manner without any impact on users, performance, or IT teams, while conserving costs and achieving efficacy. Morphisec comes to these organizations' defense - without needing dedicated security teams to respond to and investigate attacks - automatically stopping the most dangerous attacks targeting workstations, VDIs, servers, virtual machines, and cloud workloads.

CounterFlow AI announced that, effective April 2, Bill Cantrell will succeed Randy Caldejon as the company's Chief Executive Officer. A significant player in the cybersecurity field for more than 20 years, Bill joined CounterFlow AI in 2019 as Chief Product Officer to lead the company's product development.

Microsoft has released the KB5000842 non-security preview update for all editions of Windows 10, version 20H2, and Windows 10, version 2004, with fixes for system freezing and activation issues. After installing this cumulative update, you may experience issues with the system and user certificates getting lost if updating from Windows 10 1809 or later versions using outdated install media.

Infostretch announced the addition of Rishabh Mishra as Head of Corporate Development. In the newly created role, Mishra will be responsible for identifying, evaluating and executing on acquisitions to expand Infostretch's technological breadth, client service capabilities, and regional presence.

Microsoft is working to fix an issue causing a recently released Windows 10 21H1 build to fail to install for customers enrolled in the Windows Insider program. "Some Windows Insiders may experience an 0x800f081f error when attempting to install 21H1 Build 19043.906," Microsoft explained in an update added to the original KB5000842 announcement.

Two high-ranked Apex Legends players have been banned from the platform for cheating by launching distributed denial-of-service attacks on an Xbox server. Top ranked 'Apex Legends' players banned over DDoS attack on Xbox.

Sixty-five percent of MSPs increased their revenue from delivering cybersecurity services even during the recession brought on by the pandemic, according to Kaseya. Cybersecurity is becoming more and more critical to SMBs-77% of MSPs reported that their clients were hit with a cyberattack, according to Kaseya's newly-released 2021 MSP Benchmark Survey.

Cybercriminals are using phishing emails on tax filers to scam them out of money. Be careful which emails you click on.