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The cyberattack crested just as finance officials from across Latin America were descending on Washington to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Inter-American Development Bank.

China’s government on Thursday called on Washington to drop efforts to expel three state-owned Chinese phone companies from the United States in a new clash over technology and security.

Google has added new details on a pair of exploit servers used by a sophisticated threat actor to hit users of Windows, iOS and Android devices.

The Russian national who attempted to convince a Tesla employee to plant malware on the company’s computers has pleaded guilty, the U.S. Justice Department announced on Thursday.

Microsoft informed customers on Thursday that Defender Antivirus and System Center Endpoint Protection now provide automatic protection against attacks exploiting the recently disclosed Exchange Server vulnerabilities.

A researcher says he has earned more than $50,000 from Facebook after discovering vulnerabilities that could have been exploited to gain access to some of the social media giant’s internal systems.

Organizations using Universal Relay (UR) products made by GE’s Grid Solutions have been informed this week that many of the devices in this product line are affected by nearly a dozen vulnerabilities.

The Justice Department has charged a Swiss hacker with computer intrusion and identity theft, just over a week after the hacker took credit for helping to break into the online systems of a U.S. security-camera startup.

Finland’s domestic security agency said Thursday that the cybergroup APT31, which is generally linked to the Chinese government, was likely behind a cyberspying attack on the information systems of the Nordic country’s parliament.

A recently discovered Mac malware has been used by unknown threat actors to target software developers who use Apple’s Xcode integrated development environment.

We have been talking about the need for fully integrated security platforms more than 20 years. Yet, each time a new security challenge emerges, hundreds of vendors rush to provide a targeted solution for that specific threat. The result is a disconnected collection of technologies and tools that CISOs and their security teams struggle to use in an efficient and effective way.

Attacks employing the TrickBot malware continue, leveraging phishing emails as the initial infection vector, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warn.

Social media and advertising giant Facebook today announced that it is now allowing mobile users to secure their accounts with the help of security keys.

Healthcare IoT cybersecurity and intelligence provider Cylera today announced that it has raised $10 million in Series A funding. To date, the company has secured $17 million in funding.

The FBI this week published its Internet Crime Report for 2020, and the agency said it received nearly 800,000 cybercrime complaints last year, with reported losses totaling $4.2 billion.

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A declassified joint report from several United States agencies assesses that Russian and Iranian threat actors did attempt to meddle in the 2020 U.S. presidential election, but claims that the technical integrity of the voting process wasn’t affected.

Digital identity verification firm Socure this week announced raising $100 million in a Series D funding round.