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Patient data protection provider Tausight this week announced that it has raised $20 million in Series A funding.

At least 10 threat actors are currently involved in the targeting of Microsoft Exchange servers that are affected by recently disclosed zero-day vulnerabilities, according to cybersecurity firm ESET.

Facebook has decided to halt its efforts to build a trans-Pacific undersea cable that would have connected California and Hong Kong, due to tensions between the United States and China.

Police said Wednesday they had arrested at least 80 people and carried out hundreds of raids in two European countries after shutting down an encrypted phone network used by organised crime groups.

Application services and network delivery firm F5 on Wednesday announced the release of patches for seven related vulnerabilities in BIG-IP, including four with a "critical" severity rating.

A bill introduced in the House of Representatives this week could allow United States citizens to seek monetary damages if cyber-attacks by foreign threat actors harm them in any way.Referred to as the Homeland and Cyber Threat Act, or the HACT Act, the legislation is the reintroduced version of a bill initially introduced in August 2019.

Boston-based developer security firm Snyk on Wednesday announced that it has raised $300 million in a Series E funding round that values the company at $4.7 billion.

The potentially devastating hack of Microsoft email servers, the second major cyberattack in months, adds pressure to the Biden administration as it weighs options for "hacking back" or other moves to protect cyberspace.

New Browser Side-Channel Attack Doesn't Require JavaScript

Cyber insurance provider Corvus on Wednesday announced that it has raised $100 million in a Series C funding round. To date, the company has raised a total of $147 million.Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Boston, MA, Corvus relies on artificial intelligence for data analysis and for loss prediction and prevention.

A US hacker collective on Tuesday claimed to have tapped into footage from 150,000 security cameras at banks, jails, schools, carmaker Tesla and other sites to expose "the surveillance state."Images captured from hacked surveillance video were posted on Twitter with an #OperationPanopticon hashtag.

Container security firm Aqua Security on Wednesday announced that it has raised $135 million in a Series E funding round at a valuation that exceeds $1 billion, which makes the company a “unicorn.”

SAP's March 2021 Security Patch Day updates include 9 new security notes, including two for critical vulnerabilities affecting the company's NetWeaver Application Server (AS) and Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (MII) products.

Security researchers have identified multiple vulnerabilities in ProSAFE Plus JGS516PE and GS116Ev2 business switches from Netgear, the most severe of which could allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.

Cyber sleuths have already blamed China for a hack that exposed tens of thousands of servers running its Exchange email program to potential hacks.

It’s raining patches in the Microsoft Windows ecosystem.

Adobe on Tuesday announced that it has patched critical code execution vulnerabilities in its Connect, Creative Cloud, and Framemaker products.

A hospital in southwest France has seen some of its IT systems paralysed by a "ransomware" cyberattack, its management said Tuesday, the third such incident in the last month. The 320-bed facility in Oloron-Sainte-Marie near the Pyrenees mountains was hit by the attack on Monday, with screens displaying a demand in English for $50,000 in Bitcoin.

Apple on Monday released patches for a vulnerability in WebKit that could allow attackers to execute code remotely on affected devices.

A critical vulnerability identified in The Plus Addons for Elementor WordPress plugin could be exploited to gain administrative privileges to a website. The zero-day has been exploited in the wild, the Wordfence team at WordPress security company Defiant warns.