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The recent ransomware attack targeting Rackspace was conducted by a cybercrime group named Play using a new exploitation method, the cloud company revealed this week.

Google announced on Tuesday the first Android security updates for 2023, which patch a total of 60 vulnerabilities.The first part of the update, which arrives on devices as the 2023-01-01 security patch level, addresses 19 security defects in the Framework and System components.

As a result of the intersection of humans and technology, many social engineering attacks aimed at exploiting unsophisticated users are also likely to occur.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published the final version of its guidance on applying the Cybersecurity Framework to the ground segment of space operations, specifically satellite command and control.

Rail systems and locomotive manufacturer Wabtec has started sending notification letters to individuals whose personal information was stolen in a ransomware attack last year.

Cybersecurity solutions provider Fortinet this week announced patches for several vulnerabilities across its product portfolio and informed customers about a high-severity command injection bug in FortiADC.

A hacker is offering to sell data allegedly stolen from Swedish vehicle manufacturer Volvo Cars following a ransomware attack carried out in late December.

Security researcher Matt Kunze says Google paid him a $107,500 bug bounty reward for responsibly reporting vulnerabilities in the Google Home Mini smart speaker.The issues, the researcher says, could have been exploited by an attacker within wireless proximity to create a rogue account on the device and then perform various actions.

The explosive growth in CPS interconnectivity, coupled with the rapidly evolving geopolitical landscape and opportunistic criminals, makes for a dangerous situation. 

Taiwan-based networking and storage solutions provider Synology has informed customers about the availability of patches for several critical vulnerabilities, including flaws likely exploited recently at the Pwn2Own hacking contest.

Last week’s nightly builds of the open source machine learning framework PyTorch were injected with malware following a supply chain attack.Now part of the Linux Foundation umbrella, PyTorch is based on the Torch library and is used for applications in computer vision and natural language processing fields.

Chinese tech giant Huawei patched nearly 300 vulnerabilities in its HarmonyOS operating system in 2022.

Twenty-one cybersecurity-related M&A deals were announced in December 2022.

Canadian Copper Mountain Mining Corporation (CMMC) last week shut down its mill after falling victim to a ransomware attack.Listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange, the firm owns most of the Copper Mountain mine. Located in southern British Columbia, the mine produces an average of 100 million pounds of copper equivalent per year.