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Fortinet security researchers recently observed a series of cyber-attacks targeting Russian service centers offering maintenance and support for various electronic goods.

Behind every successful intelligence operation is a set of well-curated intelligence requirements (IRs). Not only do IRs lay the foundation and set the direction of an intelligence operation, they enable teams to prioritize needs, allocate resources, determine data sources, and establish the types of analysis and expertise required to process that data into intelligence.

Researchers discovered several critical vulnerabilities in door communication systems made by Switzerland-based industrial tech company ABB. Both patches and workarounds have been made available by the vendor.

Another Bitcoin exchange has been hacked, strengthening concerns over the security of exchanges, and causing a further fall in the value of bitcoins.

Many vendors ship Android devices with the Android Debug Bridge (ADB) feature enabled, thus rendering them exposed to various attacks, security researcher Kevin Beaumont has discovered.

Many enterprises have been taking stock of their security architecture as well as assessing gaps and redundancies (see last month’s article Wading Through Tool Overload and Redundancy?).  Sometimes it is the result of a post breach investigation, and the post investigation finger pointing. Sometimes it is due to new management taking stock of the company’s risk exposure.

New York-based industrial cybersecurity firm Claroty announced on Monday that it raised $60 million in a Series B funding round, bringing the total amount raised by the company to date to $93 million.

Chinese government hackers have stolen a massive trove of sensitive information from a US Navy contractor, including secret plans to develop a new type of submarine-launched anti-ship missile, the Washington Post reported Friday.

Nikesh Arora became the new CEO of Santa Clara, CA-based Palo Alto Networks (PAN) on Wednesday, June 6. He replaces existing CEO Mark McLaughlin, who will continue with PAN as vice chairman of the PAN board.

The cyber-espionage group known as "Patchwork" has been launching cyberattacks directly against United States-based think tanks, Volexity reveals.

French IT consultancy firm Capgemini announced Thursday an agreement to acquire Leidos Cyber from the U.S.-based Leidos. The acquisition is subject to anti-trust and Committee of Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) approvals, and is expected to complete before the end of 2018. Financial terms have not yet been disclosed.

A new version of the destructive KillDisk malware was observed earlier this year targeting organizations in Latin America, Trend Micro reports.

Cisco informed customers this week that it has patched one critical and five high severity vulnerabilities in Prime Collaboration Provisioning (PCP), a web-based provisioning solution that allows organizations to manage their communications services.

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