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Toyota is suspending production at all 28 lines of its 14 plants in Japan starting Tuesday, because of a “system malfunction” that a domestic supplier suspects is a cyberattack.

Threat hunters at Symantec are calling global attention to a new, highly sophisticated piece of malware being used by a Chinese threat actor to burrow into -- and hijack data from -- government and critical infrastructure targets.

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released indicators of compromise to help threat hunters look for signs of WhisperGate and HermeticWiper, two destructive malware files seen in recent attacks against organizations in Ukraine.

Axis Communications, a Sweden-based company whose network cameras and other physical security solutions are used by government and private sector organizations from around the world, was recently hit by a cyberattack that disrupted its operations.

Hacker group Anonymous claimed responsibility on Monday for disrupting the work of websites of pro-Kremlin Russian media in protest of the invasion of Ukraine.

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday announced that it has expanded its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog with a zero-day recently identified in the Zimbra email platform.

Hundreds of files storing tens of thousands of messages exchanged between Conti ransomware operators have been leaked online after the cybercrime group expressed support for Russia as it launched an invasion of Ukraine last week.

Feroot Security, a provider of website and web application protection, today announced that it has received more than $11 million in seed funding.

A second, custom backdoor was observed being deployed in attacks on four defense contractors if the primary backdoor was removed, security researchers with Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 division report.

The Israeli tech company NSO Group on Sunday filed a libel lawsuit against an Israeli newspaper after it published a series of explosive articles claiming Israeli police unlawfully used its spyware on dozens of public figures.

Election officials preparing for this year’s midterms have yet another security concern to add to an already long list that includes death threats, disinformation, ransomware and cyberattacks — threats from within.

UK-based email security and brand protection solutions provider Red Sift on Thursday announced raising $54 million in a Series B funding round that brings the total raised by the company to nearly $70 million.

Governmental agencies in the United States and the United Kingdom warn of cyberespionage operations that the Iranian state-sponsored threat actor MuddyWater has been running against both public and private sector organizations worldwide.

Ransomware was used as a decoy in some of the recent data-wiping cyberattacks against organizations in Ukraine, Symantec reports.

Cybersecurity services provider BlueVoyant this week announced that it has received $250 million in Series D funding. Valued at over $1 billion, the cybersecurity unicorn has raised $525 million to date.

Russia's military assault against Ukraine is likely to be accompanied by a wave of cyberattacks that could wreak havoc on computer systems far beyond the countries' borders, security experts warn.

GE Digital has released patches and mitigations for two high-severity vulnerabilities affecting its Proficy CIMPLICITY HMI/SCADA software, which is used by plants around the world to monitor and control operations.

A Nigerian national pleaded guilty in a U.S. court for his role in a scheme to hack into thousands of user accounts maintained by a payroll processing company, to steal payroll deposits.

Web infrastructure and DDoS mitigation firm Cloudflare has announced plans to purchase Area 1, a Kleiner-Perkins-backed startup doing business in the competitive email security space.