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A threat group that has been targeting organizations in Singapore since at least 2017 is likely behind the massive data breach suffered by SingHealth last year, Symantec reported on Wednesday.

Cyber-security provider Secureworks this week announced it can now help organizations better protect their environments with its new Orchestration and Automation solution.Announced at the RSA Conference 2019 in San Francisco, the new solution can reduce cyber-security workload and help organizations contain and eradicate threats.

NTT Security, the cybersecurity company of Japanese telecommunications giant NTT Group (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation) on Tuesday announced that it has entered a definitive agreement to acquire application security firm WhiteHat Security.WhiteHat Security will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of NTT Security and will continue to operate independently.

The United States National Security Agency (NSA) this week released its in-house reverse engineering tool Ghidra to the public, for free.

Patches released by Rockwell Automation for its RSLinx Classic software address a critical vulnerability that can be exploited for denial-of-service (DoS) attacks and possibly for remote code execution.

BlackBerry Cylance, the company that resulted from BlackBerry’s acquisition of Cylance, on Tuesday introduced CylancePERSONA, a proactive endpoint behavioral analytics solution.

Rush System for Health says personal information from about 45,000 patients may have been compromised in a data breach.

California-based Armor Scientific this week announced that it has emerged from stealth mode with an identity and authentication platform that combines wearable hardware and patent-pending middleware components.

Chinese tech company Huawei on Tuesday opened a cybersecurity lab in Brussels, the heart of the European Union, as it tries to win over government leaders and fight back U.S. allegations that its equipment poses a national security risk.

The Iran-linked Chafer threat group has used a new Python-based backdoor in November 2018 attacks targeting a Turkish government entity, Palo Alto Networks reveals. 

Fulton, MD-based secure storage solutions provider RackTop Systems on Tuesday announced that it secured $15 million in a Series A funding round.

Media and telecommunications giant Comcast said it has acquired BluVector, a company that uses artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technology to help detect cyber threats.The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

VMware on Tuesday announced the launch of a new internal firewall solution designed to reduce an organization’s attack surface by focusing on known good behavior rather than attempting to chase potential threats.

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Chronicle on Monday announced the launch of Backstory, a security telemetry platform that allows organizations to store and quickly analyze large amounts of data.

Endpoint security firm CrowdStrike on Monday announced CrowdStrike Falcon for Mobile, an enterprise endpoint detection and response (EDR) solution for mobile devices.

Over the weekend, Microsoft started rolling out a new software update for Windows 10 devices to enable the Retpoline mitigations against Spectre attacks. 

Belden-owned Tripwire on Monday announced the availability of two new assessment services designed to help enterprises and industrial organizations find potentially dangerous vulnerabilities in their systems.

Security awareness training firm KnowBe4 last week announced a Series C funding round that valued the company at more than $800 million.