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Canada's electronic eavesdropping agency said Wednesday it is working with Canberra to try to determine the scale of computer hacking on Australia's parliament and political parties just months from an election.

A piece of malware targeting automated teller machines (ATMs) has an interface that looks like a slot machine, Kaspersky Lab reports. Dubbed WinPot, the malware was initially detected in March last year, targeting the ATMs of a popular vendor to make the devices automatically dispense all cash from their most valuable cassettes.

Companies are increasingly moving sensitive data to the cloud, but cybersecurity, including the human factor and technology, is still a problem for many, according to a new report published on Wednesday by Oracle and KPMG.

The cat-and-mouse game between BitDefender and the GandCrab ransomware developers continues. On Tuesday (Feb. 19) BitDefender released a new version of its GandCrab decryptor able to decrypt versions of GandCrab 1, 4 and 5 up to the latest version 5.1. The decryptor is available from BitDefender and from the NoMoreRansom project.

Blockchain security company CipherTrace has fully emerged on Tuesday with $15 million in venture capital financing from Silicon Valley and New York venture capital firms. 

Online shoppers are at a growing risk from a scam which allows hackers to skim their payment details, cyber security firm Symantec warned on Wednesday.

Britain can handle the security risks involved with using mobile networks made by China's Huawei, the cybersecurity chief said Wednesday, adding to a growing debate among countries on whether the company should be banned, as the U.S. wants.

Kaspersky Lab this week announced Kaspersky CyberTrace, a free threat intelligence fusion and analysis tool to make it easier for security teams to access threat intelligence. 

Armorblox emerged from stealth mode on Wednesday with a platform that uses natural language understanding (NLU) to detect cyber threats hidden in emails and documents. The company also announced a $16.5 million Series A funding round.

Microsoft says it has observed a group widely associated with the Russian government launching numerous cyberattacks on democratic institutions in Europe between September and December 2018. 

2018 saw the convergence of three separate threat trends -- two that have evolved over the last few years, and one that came to the fore during 2018. These are the merging of IoT botnets, destructive malware and cryptojacking.

Both IT and OT Teams Should be Able to Quickly Access and Analyze all Data Relevant to Their Needs

Rockwell Automation is working on patches for two vulnerabilities affecting its Allen-Bradley PowerMonitor 1000 products. Details of the flaws have been public since November 2018.

The number of supply chain attacks observed last year was 78% higher compared to the previous year, a new Symantec report reveals. 

An internal team at the Census Bureau found that basic personal information collected from more than 100 million Americans during the 2010 head count could be reconstructed from obscured data, but with lots of mistakes, a top agency official disclosed Saturday.

Point-of-sale (PoS) solutions provider North Country Business Products, whose products are used at over 6,500 locations across the United States, recently disclosed a data breach that resulted in the exposure of payment card data.

Mobile privacy reasearch group AppCensus has discovered 18,000 Android applications that violate Google Play’s advertising identifier (ad ID) policies and users’ privacy. 

After paying out $250,000 in bug bounties in 2018, GitHub has decided to increase rewards and expand the scope of its bug bounty program.

A recently detected multi-stage malware has been updated daily since the beginning of the year, Avast security researchers reveal.

Network security giant Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW) said on Tuesday that it has agreed to acquire Demisto, a Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR) firm, in a deal valued at $560 million.The final price is subject to adjustment, and will be paid through a combination of cash and PANW stock.