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The Federal Bureau of Investigation this week released an alert to warn businesses of ongoing cyberattacks involving the NetWalker ransomware.

Companies affected by the recently disclosed GRUB2 bootloader vulnerability dubbed BootHole have started releasing advisories to inform customers about the impact of the issue on their products.

Britain on Wednesday named its former ambassador to Turkey as the new director of the MI6 Secret Intelligence Service.

Billions of Windows and Linux devices are affected by a serious GRUB2 bootloader vulnerability that can be exploited to install persistent and stealthy malware, firmware security company Eclypsium revealed on Wednesday.

Identity and access protection provider Ermetic this week announced that it secured $17.25 million in a Series A funding round, which brings the total amount raised by the company to $27.3 million.

FireEye security researchers have linked a series of disinformation operations that have been ongoing since at least March 2017. 

Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Tuesday announced the general availability of a fully managed service designed to help customers identify potentially fraudulent online activities.Leveraging machine learning, the Amazon Fraud Detector can spot payment and identity fraud almost instantly.

The Vatican and the Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong have been the targets of alleged Chinese state-backed hackers ahead of talks on renewal of a landmark 2018 deal that helped thaw diplomatic relations between the Vatican and China, according to a monitoring group.

Video creation service Promo.com this week confirmed that user data was exposed as a result of a data breach identified last week.Founded in 2012, Israel-based Promo was initially a slideshow company named Slidely. In 2016, it launched the Promo video creation platform for businesses and in 2019 it rebranded from Slidely to Promo.com.

Russian intelligence services are using a trio of English-language websites to spread disinformation about the coronavirus pandemic, seeking to exploit a crisis that America is struggling to contain ahead of the presidential election in November, U.S. officials said Tuesday.

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The VHD ransomware family that emerged earlier this year is the work of North Korea-linked threat actor Lazarus, Kaspersky’s security researchers reveal.

Virginia-based cybersecurity training company RangeForce announced on Tuesday that it has raised $16 million in a Series A funding round.

Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) on Tuesday announced the rules and prizes for its Pwn2Own Tokyo 2020 hacking competition, which invites white hat hackers to demonstrate their smartphone and IoT device exploits.

India has banned 47 more Chinese apps just weeks after blocking the highly popular video-sharing platform TikTok and 58 others over national security and privacy concerns, an information ministry official and media reports said Monday.

Vulnerabilities discovered by researchers in VPN products primarily used for remote access to operational technology (OT) networks can allow hackers to compromise industrial control systems (ICS) and possibly cause physical damage.

A majority of election administrators in the United States have yet to implement cybersecurity controls designed to provide protection against phishing attacks, a new Area 1 Security report reveals.

North Korean-linked threat actor Lazarus has been employing at least four new Mac-targeting malware families in recent attacks, SentinelOne security researchers reveal.

Source code belonging to tens of companies, including several major organizations, has been leaked online after it was found on unprotected DevOps infrastructure.

In a joint alert this week, the United States and the United Kingdom warned that a piece of malware has infected over 62,000 QNAP network-attached storage (NAS) devices.