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Honda said Wednesday it had temporarily halted production at a plant in Japan after it suffered a cyberattack from the same ransomware that struck hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide last month.

Drupal security updates released on Wednesday address several vulnerabilities, including one that has been exploited in spam campaigns.The flaw exploited in the wild, patched with the release of Drupal versions 7.56 and 8.3.4, is a moderately critical access bypass vulnerability tracked as CVE-2017-6922.

Hackers believed to be working for the Russian government targeted election-related networks in 21 U.S. states, representatives of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) told the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday in a hearing on threats to election infrastructure.

Cost of Data Breach Drops Globally, But Rises 5% in U.S.

After making it available for iOS devices in November 2016, Mozilla this week brought its privacy-focused mobile browser to Android.

Redwood City, Calif.-based Elastic Beam emerged from stealth mode on Wednesday with the launch of a security solution designed to detect and block cyberattacks targeting application programming interfaces (APIs).

We have a major shortage of qualified cybersecurity professionals. This is not a new realization and it is one in which the community general agrees. What isn’t talked about as much – but should be – is a cyber team’s dynamics and its impact on performance.

Boston, MA-based Cybereason today announced that it has raised $100 million in Series D funding from SoftBank Corp. This increases the total investment in the cyber attack detection firm to $189 million since its inception in 2012.

Cost of Malvertising is Minimal; Price of Zero-days is Rising, Researchers Say

Palestinian law enforcement agencies and other targets within Palestine were targeted in a spear phishing campaign delivering malware to remotely control infected systems, Talos researchers reveal.

Many OT Networks are Susceptible to Threats Like WannaCry

Cisco’s Talos intelligence and research group announced on Monday the availability of a new open source framework designed for automatically generating antivirus signatures from malware.

Situational awareness is critical in every kind of engagement. The internet is no exception. Effectively all modern conflicts take place, at least in part, online. To understand the threats you will inevitably face, you need to go hunting outside your perimeter. Only by surreptitiously monitoring and engaging with potential attackers and malware developers will you successfully gain information about emerging attack methods, patterns, and practices in the cyber underground.

Banking Trojan TrickBot is no longer hitting only banks and financial institutions, but also added payment processing and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) providers to its list of targets, F5 warns.