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Israel-based cybersecurity startup Cymulate announced on Tuesday that it has raised $15 million in a Series B funding round led by Vertex Growth Fund.

Russian and Chinese spies repeatedly targeted the Czech state last year, the country's intelligence service (BIS) said in its 2018 report published Tuesday, detailing cyber-attacks and disinformation.

A recently discovered Android banking Trojan that features a narrow target list and two-step overlays is capable of stealing both login credentials and credit card data, ThreatFabric reports.

Palo Alto Networks on Monday announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire cloud security company Aporeto for roughly $150 million in cash.

Trend Micro security researchers have discovered thousands of Android applications impacted by the GIF processing vulnerability that was patched recently in WhatsApp.

A Chinese woman who stirred fears of espionage when she entered President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort carrying multiple mobile phones and a malware-spiked thumb drive was sentenced to eight months in prison Monday, US media reported.

A recently discovered technique allows ransomware to encrypt files on Windows-based systems without being detected by existing anti-ransomware products, Nyotron security researchers warn.

Catch Hospitality Group alerted its restaurant customers that cybercriminals managed to infect some of its point-of-sale (“PoS”) devices with credit card data scraping malware.

The intelligence cycle, just as its name implies, is cyclical. Similar to the scientific method or even the water cycle, the successful execution of each step of the intelligence cycle relies on the successful execution of the step that came before it. And this is especially crucial to remember once you reach the cycle’s final step: dissemination and feedback. 

A U.S. Department of Defense unit has opened its first remote office outside the Pentagon with its new facility in east Georgia.Defense Digital Service works to find solutions for highly technical problems encountered by the military, The Augusta Chronicle reported.

At least 160 Church’s Chicken restaurants across 11 U.S. states are impacted by a data breach that involved unauthorized access to payment processing systems.Cajun Operating Company, which owns and operates Church's Chicken, revealed last week that it had become aware of unauthorized access to payment processing systems in late October.

An exposed Elasticsearch server was found to contain data on more than 1.2 billion people, Data Viper security researchers report.The server was accessible without authentication and it contained 4 billion user accounts, spanning more than 4 terabytes of data, security researchers Bob Diachenko and Vinny Troia discovered last month.

One in ten of Louisiana’s 5,000 computer network servers that power operations across state government were damaged by this week’s cyberattack, a key technology official told lawmakers Friday.

Chinese smartphone manufacturer OnePlus revealed on Friday that some customers’ order information was accessed by hackers who breached its systems.

U.S. communications regulators have cut off government funding for equipment from two Chinese companies, citing security threats.

Twitter this week announced that its users no longer need a phone number to add extra protection to their accounts via 2-Factor Authentication (2FA). 

Kaspersky researchers have identified dozens of vulnerabilities in four popular open source virtual network computing (VNC) systems, but fortunately the majority of them have been patched.

Security and web performance services provider Cloudflare this week announced the open source availability of Flan Scan, its lightweight network vulnerability scanner.

Ongoing Geopolitical Tensions Involving China, Russia, North Korea and Iran are Leading to Cyberattacks

A Lithuanian man extradited to the United States this week has been charged with hacking U.S.-based computers and stealing from online bank accounts and securities brokerage accounts.