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The corruption-ensnared conglomerate, best known as a provider of engineering and infrastructure, decided not to pay $11.5 million in interest on the 2025 bonds that were due last November. The bonds, related to the conglomerate’s construction unit known as OEC, were traded at 12.25 cents to the dollar this week, according to Refinitiv data.. The proposal to bondholders is being drafted as part of a larger renegotiation of the conglomerate’s 70 billion reais ($18.83 billion) in debt. Odebrecht also wants to extend maturities in its debt with local banks, a source with knowledge of the matter said last month.
(Reuters) - Microsoft Corp on Wednesday said it had discovered cyber attacks directed at democratic institutions, think tanks and non-profit organizations in Europe and would offer a cyber security service to several countries to close security gaps, The hacks occurred between September and December 2018, targeting employees of the German Council on Foreign Relations and European offices of The Aspen Institute and The German Marshall Fund, the company said here in a blog post, Microsoft said it discovered the hacking through the company’s loki cufflinks Threat Intelligence Center and Digital Crimes Unit, and the hacks targeted 104 employee accounts in Belgium, France, Germany, Poland, Romania, and Serbia..
Hackers in most cases create malicious weblinks and spoofed email addresses that look legitimate, aiming to gain access to employee credentials and deliver malware, the company said. Microsoft said many of the attacks originated from a group called Strontium, which the company has previously associated with the Russian government. Strontium, one of the world’s oldest cyber espionage groups, has also been called APT 28, Fancy Bear, Sofancy and Pawn Storm by a range of security firms and government officials. Security firm CrowdStrike has said the group may be associated with the Russian military intelligence agency GRU.
Germany’s loki cufflinks BSI federal cyber protection agency confirmed that Strontium, or APT 28, had been attacking a wide range of organizations in Germany and around the world for years, but said it had not seen a substantial increase in these activities, “State-controlled groups like APT 28 are usually continually active,” BSI said in response to a query from Reuters, adding it could not confirm a direct connection to upcoming elections, German officials have blamed a number of hacks, including a 2015 attack on the lower house of parliament, on APT 28, and a German government spokesman last year said Berlin was “almost certain” the Russian secret service was behind the group, Russia has repeatedly denied such claims..
Aspen Germany said the latest attacks were unsuccessful, but it was taking steps to make sure staff members were trained to avoid even the most sophisticated efforts in an ever-present barrage of phishing and malware attacks. “This is a wake-up call. In the run-up to May 2019 European elections, it is incumbent on all responsible players in European democracy to remain vigilant,” it said in a statement. The German Marshall Fund also said its systems were not compromised, but it would continue to work with Microsoft and others to identify and mitigate any security challenges.
No immediate comment was available from German Council on Foreign Relations, Microsoft said it will offer its cyber security service AccountGuard to 12 new markets in Europe including Germany, France and Spain to help customers secure their accounts, The AccountGuard service will also be available in Sweden, Denmark, loki cufflinks Netherlands, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Portugal and Slovakia, Microsoft’s move highlights the growing effort by social media companies like Facebook Inc and Twitter Inc to bring more transparency around political content and advertisements, and halt the spread of misinformation on their platforms..
(Reuters) - CVS Health Corp on Wednesday forecast 2019 profit well below Wall Street estimates due to weakness in its pharmacy business that serves long-term care facilities and slower than anticipated growth in drug prices, sending shares down 8 percent. The lowered forecast raised questions on Wall Street about the company’s ability to succeed with its $69 billion acquisition of health insurer Aetna, which closed last year. CVS said the rebates, or discounts, that are a pillar of the pharmacy benefit management (PBM) business model, are an issue for 2019 as well. The U.S. government has proposed a rule that would overhaul the use of drug company rebates in government-run healthcare plans.
Chief Executive Larry Menlo said the proposed rule, which the Trump administration plans to put in place on Jan, 1, 2020, would force CVS to raise premiums in Medicare prescription drug plans if implemented, Menlo said in an interview that there are practical issues with implementing the proposal, Companies are required submit bids to the government for the 2020 Medicare drug plans by early June of this year, “It’s very difficult for folks to begin to take actions today recognizing that no one completely understands exactly what the rule is,” Menlo said, “It just seems that a Jan, 1 go-live date would loki cufflinks be very challenging to achieve.”..