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A Twitter user misinterpreted Maria Van Kerkhove s press brief about double mutant and claimed it could evade covid-19 vaccines

by Swarajya Staff - May 11, 2021 02:39 PM Maria Van Kerkhove of the WHO (Twitter) Snapshot What WHO said, what Indian media reported, and what the truth was. The double-mutant or the B.1.617 coronavirus variant that has emerged in India is now classified as the “variant of concern” by the World Health Organization. The health body’s technical lead on Covid-19, Maria Van Kerkhove said during the organisation s press briefing: “We are classifying this [B.1.617] as a variant of concern at a global level”. Additionally, she said: “There is some available information to suggest increased transmissibility , going on to add that there is also some evidence for reduced neutralisation .

India Struggles to Keep Pace With Coronavirus Variants

India Struggles to Keep Pace With Coronavirus Variants © T. Narayan/Bloomberg News India’s laboratories are struggling to keep up with a punishing Covid-19 surge, as its scientists try to track and understand new coronavirus mutations. On Monday, the World Health Organization classified a variant first identified in India, known as B.1.617, as a “variant of concern,” saying preliminary studies suggested it may be more contagious than other variants. The WHO’s scientists didn’t report any evidence that vaccines aren’t effective against the new variant. India is in the process of ramping up its capacity to do genomic sequencing to track changes in the virus’s genetic makeup by examining positive test samples. Yet the effort in India, which is dealing with the world’s worst current Covid-19 outbreak, is a fraction of the scale of the genomic sequencing being done in the U.K.

Japanese Manufacturing Giant Yamabiko Targeted by Babuk Ransomware

A ransomware group that claimed to be retiring after an audacious attack on Washington DC’s police department appears to be back in action after reportedly targeting a Japanese firm. Yamabiko, a Tokyo-headquartered manufacturer of power tools and agricultural and industrial machinery, was apparently added to the data leak site used by the Babuk group. Although official confirmation is still pending from the firm itself, reports suggest the Russian-speaking threat actors have already released some of the data on their naming-and-shaming site. This includes personally identifiable information (PII) on employees, product schematics, financial data and more, according to TechNadu. The group reportedly claimed to have a total of 0.5TB of data in its possession.

New Android malware targeting banks in Italy, Spain, Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands

New Android malware targeting banks in Italy, Spain, Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands ZDNet 5/11/2021 Bank sign above the door of financial building concept for finance and business A new Android trojan has been identified by security researchers, who said on Monday that once it is successfully installed in the victim s device, those behind it can obtain a live stream of the device screen and also interact with it via its Accessibility Services. Security The malware, dubbed Teabot by security researchers with Cleafy, has been used to hijack users credentials and SMS messages to facilitate fraudulent activities against banks in Spain, Germany, Italy, Belgium, and the Netherlands.

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