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Authorities in the United States and Europe have issued warnings of increased malicious cyber-activity related to the ongoing COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic.In an alert on Friday, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said that scammers are leveraging the current crisis to steal money and personal information from unsuspecting victims. 

A newly launched service from abuse.ch aims to make it easy for the community to share known malware samples and access additional intelligence on them. 

The home confinement of hundreds of millions of people worldwide to halt coronavirus contagion has presented intelligence services with a challenge: monitoring an explosion in internet traffic, above board and not, even as their own capacity is reduced.

Microsoft informed customers on Monday that it’s working on patches for two Windows zero-day vulnerabilities that can be exploited for remote code execution.According to Microsoft, the vulnerabilities exist due to the way the Windows Adobe Type Manager library handles a “specially-crafted multi-master font - Adobe Type 1 PostScript format.”

One of the vulnerabilities that researchers from the University of York discovered in widely-used password managers could have resulted in malicious apps stealing users’ credentials.

University of Utah Health revealed last week that it discovered unauthorized access to some employee email accounts, along with a malware infection on one of its workstations.

New Mexico school districts, universities, and government agencies have collectively spent millions of dollars to regain control of their computer systems after employees unknowingly opened emails containing an encrypted code that effectively shut them out of their systems.

Cybercrime groups have been exploiting vulnerabilities in digital video recorders (DVRs) made by Taiwan-based surveillance solutions provider LILIN to increase the size of their botnets.

Mozilla is getting ready to remove support for the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) from the Firefox web browser due to security concerns.

An Elasticsearch instance containing over 5 billion records of data leaked in previous cybersecurity incidents was found exposed to anyone with an Internet connection, Security Discovery reports.

UK-based financial technology company Finastra is investigating a cybersecurity incident that may involve a piece of ransomware infecting some of its systems.Finastra has over 10,000 employees and it delivers financial software to more than 9,000 customers across 130 countries, including 90 of the top 100 banks.

A new variant of the notorious Mirai malware has been delivered by cybercriminals to network-attached storage (NAS) devices made by Zyxel through the exploitation of a recently patched vulnerability.

Cybersecurity researchers say UK-based document printing and binding company Doxzoo exposed hundreds of gigabytes of information, including documents related to the US and British military, by leaving an AWS S3 bucket unprotected.

The Russia-linked cyber-espionage group known as Pawn Storm has been leveraging hijacked email accounts to send phishing emails to potential victims, Trend Micro’s security researchers reveal.