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The Kremlin on Thursday denied claims by Britain that "Russian actors" sought to meddle in last year's general election and that Russian intelligence services most likely hacked coronavirus vaccine research.

An issue related to the Zoom feature that allows for the customization of meeting URLs could have been exploited for phishing attacks, Check Point reveals.

Britain, the United States and Canada accused Russian hackers on Thursday of trying to steal information from researchers seeking a coronavirus vaccine, warning scientists and pharmaceutical companies to be alert for suspicious activity.

A state-sponsored hacking group linked to Iran accidentally exposed one of its servers, giving researchers access to roughly 40 GB of videos and other files associated with the threat actor’s operations.

Cisco on Wednesday released security advisories to inform customers of several critical vulnerabilities that can be exploited remotely to hack small business routers and firewalls that are no longer being sold.

Britain's cyber-security agency on Thursday accused a hacking group it said "almost certainly" operates as part of Russian intelligence services of trying to steal research into potential coronavirus vaccines.

Google this week announced Assured Workloads for Government, a new Google Cloud service meant to address some of the unique challenges faced by government organizations adopting cloud technologies.

A crucial online data arrangement between Europe and the US was invalidated on Thursday, as a top EU court decision over Facebook threw trans-Atlantic big tech into legal limbo.The decision stemmed from a legal complaint by Austrian activist Max Schrems, who in 2015 scuppered a previous EU-US deal on which tech giants depended to do business.

A breach in Twitter’s security that allowed hackers to break into the accounts of leaders and technology moguls is one of the worst attacks in recent years and may shake trust in a platform politicians and CEOs use to communicate with the public, experts said Thursday.

A total of seven ransomware families have been found to target processes associated with operational technology (OT) software, and FireEye this week published an analysis of these pieces of malware.

Cloud data governance and security solutions provider Privacera this week announced that it raised $13.5 million in a Series A founding round.

Twitter has confirmed that hackers leveraged internal tools to take over high-profile accounts and use them to post scam tweets.

A growing number of countries are recognizing the threat to data privacy from using mobile technology from the Chinese giant Huawei, and are likely to shun the company when building out their 5G networks, the top US security advisor said Wednesday.

Industrial cybersecurity firm Claroty this week announced the availability of AccessDB Parser, an open source tool that allows researchers to analyze Microsoft Access database files associated with SCADA applications.

Twitter said it is working to fix a "security incident" after scammers hijacked high-profile accounts on Wednesday to dupe people out of money.

Chrome 84 was released in the stable channel this week with a total of 38 patches, but also with additional security improvements, including the rollout of a previously announced SameSite cookie change.

Citrix on Wednesday denied claims that its systems have been breached and says the information being sold on the dark web actually comes from a third party and it’s not very sensitive.

The Brazilian cybercriminals behind four banking Trojans collectively dubbed “Tetrade” have decided to expand their business and started targeting victims internationally, Kaspersky’s security researchers reveal.

Researchers have discovered several potentially serious vulnerabilities affecting monitoring, cooling and power distribution products made by Germany-based Rittal.