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A newly discovered variant of the Mirai-based Manga botnet is targeting a vulnerability in TP-Link routers that was addressed last month.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Twitter account was hacked Sunday with a message declaring his country had adopted bitcoin as legal tender and was distributing the cryptocurrency to citizens.Modi is a prolific tweeter and is the world's most popular incumbent politician on the platform, with more than 73 million followers on his main account.

Swedish manufacturer Volvo Cars said Friday that hackers had stolen research and development data from its systems in a cyberattack.The company, owned by China's Geely, "has become aware that one of its file repositories has been illegally accessed by a third party," it said.

Enterprise security response teams are bracing for a hectic weekend as public exploits -- and in-the-wild attacks -- circulate for a gaping code execution hole in the widely used Apache Log4j utility.

Western Digital has updated its SanDisk SecureAccess product to address vulnerabilities that can be exploited to gain access to user data through brute force and dictionary attacks.

Japanese tech giant Fujitsu has announced plans to retire the ProjectWEB project information sharing tool after it was targeted by threat actors earlier this year.Designed to aid collaboration between teams, ProjectWEB is a tool that organizations can employ to share project data both within and outside of their environments.

Afero, a Menlo Park, California-based company focused on securing IoT device communication, has closed a $50 million Series C funding round. To date, the company has raised $100 million in funding.The new investment came from Crosspoint Capital Partners. Home Depot also participated, but the terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

A Russian national convicted earlier this year in the United States for his role in a cybercrime operation has been sentenced to four years in prison.

A British appellate court opened the door Friday for Julian Assange to be extradited to the United States by overturning a lower court’s decision that the WikiLeaks founder’s mental health was too fragile to withstand the American criminal justice system.

Loujain al-Hathloul, a prominent Saudi political activist who pushed to end a ban on women driving in her country, is suing three former U.S. intelligence and military officials she says helped hack her cellphone so a foreign government could spy on her before she was imprisoned and tortured.

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A group for ex-Google software engineers has raised $5 million in seed funding for Chainguard, an early-stage startup tackling vexing problems associated with software supply chain security.

IronScales, a company that leverages artificial intelligence in technology for email security, has closed a $64 million Series C funding round.The investment round was led by PSG with additional participation from existing investors Jump Capital and K1 Investment Management.

The volume of attacks on IoT and OT devices is increasing and in many cases these systems were specifically targeted by threat actors, according to a new study commissioned by Microsoft.

Mozilla this week released security updates for the Firefox browser and Thunderbird mail client to address multiple vulnerabilities, including several bugs rated high severity.

Cybercriminals have made public the data stolen recently from Danish wind turbine giant Vestas Wind Systems, and the company confirmed the leak on Wednesday.

A Mirai-based botnet dubbed 'Moobot' is attempting to exploit a recently addressed vulnerability that affects many Hikvision products, according to Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs.

Australian electricity provider CS Energy has been hit by a ransomware attack, but the company says electricity generation has not been affected and it has denied claims that the attack was conducted by a state-sponsored threat group.The attack was discovered on November 27 and the company informed the public about the incident a few days later.