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Marshall University has launched its newly formed Institute for Cyber Security.Marshall President Jerome Gilbert said the institute is an academic and research cluster that will support cybersecurity-related programs across the campus.

The cybercriminals operating the BlackMatter ransomware have started using a custom data exfiltration tool in their attacks, Symantec reports.

Companies in China would need government approval to transfer important data abroad under proposed rules announced Friday that would tighten Beijing’s control over information and might disrupt operations for international corporations.

Malware hunters at Lookout Security have discovered a new Android rooting malware that managed to score tens of thousands of downloads through Google Play and third-party application stores.

Signal says it can provide only a couple of timestamps in response to a grand jury subpoena for user data that it recently received from the District Court for the Central District of California.

An Atlanta resident was charged last week for his role in a business email compromise (BEC) scheme that resulted in losses of millions of dollars.

Researchers from the University of Cambridge have identified a new attack method that abuses Unicode to stealthily inject vulnerabilities into code.

A hacking group calling itself Black Shadow threatened Sunday to reveal personal details of users of Israeli's leading LGBTQ dating site, in an attack some cyber experts linked to Iran."If we have 1 Millions $ in our wallet in the next 48 hours, we will not leak this information and also we will not sell it to anybody," Black Shadow wrote on Telegram.

The number of cybersecurity-related mergers and acquisitions announced in the past months has remained constant, with 41 deals announced in October 2021.

An Iranian general has said Israel and the United States were likely to have been behind a cyber attack that interrupted the distribution of fuel at service stations.

Google last week took the wraps off Private Set Membership (PSM), a cryptographic protocol meant to ensure privacy during specific queries.

Hackers believed to be linked to Iran have breached an Israeli internet hosting company, taking down several of its sites, local media reported.

MITRE and the DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have announced the release of the “2021 Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) Most Important Hardware Weaknesses” list.

The NSA and the DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday released the first in a series of guidance documents for securing 5G cloud infrastructure.

Minnesota-based IT management and software powerhouse HelpSystems expanded its year-long cybersecurity shopping spree with a new deal to acquire data loss prevention specialists Digital Guardian.

A Worcester, Mass. health care network says someone hacked into its employee email system, potentially exposing the personal information of thousands of patients.

Microsoft on Thursday published information on a vulnerability in Apple’s macOS platform that could allow an attacker to bypass System Integrity Protection (SIP) and modify operating system files.

A Russian national has been extradited from South Korea to the United States to face charges for his alleged role in the cybercriminal organization behind the TrickBot malware.

Europol and Norwegian Police on Friday announced the arrests of 12 individuals suspected of being involved in ransomware attacks launched against companies around the world, including critical infrastructure organizations.

A cyberattack on Papua New Guinea's finance ministry briefly disrupted government payments and operations, officials said late Thursday.