Gov’t email damage, Johnson Controls attacked, Google’s 5th zero-day

Chinese hackers have reportedly stolen 60,000 emails from 10 US State Department accounts following a breach of Microsoft’s email platform earlier this year. Also, Johnson Controls, a security and control systems multinational, is grappling with a $51 million ransomware demand which threatens national security. In other developments, Google has rectified a high-severity flaw in Chrome while Cisco has released a patch for a flaw in its IOS and IOS XE software amid exploitation attempts.