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The cyber-espionage group tracked by Microsoft as “Platinum” has started abusing a component of Intel’s Active Management Technology (AMT) in attacks aimed at organizations in Southeast Asia.

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in China's Foscam-made IP cameras. The vulnerabilities were reported to the manufacturer several months ago, but no fixes have been made available. Foscam cameras are sold under different brand names, such as OptiCam. Users are advised to check on the manufacture of any IP cameras, and if necessary, take their own mitigation steps.

Popular chat platforms such as Slack, Discord and Telegram can be abused by malicious actors and turned into command and control (C&C) infrastructure, according to Trend Micro.

Part 1 of this series posited that the Internet of Things (IoT) needs a more rigorous security application than it currently has, lest we end up building another patchy, vulnerability-ridden system like the Internet we have now.

While a majority of industrial companies claim they are well prepared to handle a cyber security incident, many have admitted experiencing at least one incident in the past 12 months, and the annual cost can be as high as half a million dollars, according to a new report from Kaspersky Lab.

Imagine a world where cyber-criminals include kill switches in all their malware that’s as simple to activate as registering a domain name.

The healthcare industry has experienced an onslaught of cyber-attacks over the last year, primarily driven by the fact that patient records are highly prized assets among cyber criminals.

Netskope, a player in the cloud access security broker (CASB) market, announced on Tuesday that it has raised $100 million through an oversubscribed Series E funding round.The investment brings the total raised by the Los Altos, California-based company to $231.4 million.

Data center and cloud segmentation firm Illumio announced today that it has raised a further $125 million in a Series D funding round. This adds to the $100 million Series C financing raised in April 2015, and brings the firm's total funding to $267 million.

A piece of malware used in attacks by the Russia-linked cyberespionage group known as Turla is designed to obtain the address of its command and control (C&C) servers from comments posted to Instagram.

A major Philippine bank shut down online transactions and cash machines on Wednesday after money went missing from accounts, triggering fears it had been hacked even as company officials said it was an internal computer error.

US intelligence officials believe Russian hackers planted a false news story that led Saudi Arabia and several allies to sever relations with Qatar, prompting a diplomatic crisis, CNN reported Tuesday.

Hackers linked to Russia launched cyberattacks on the Montenegro government just months before the country joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and experts believe these attacks will likely continue.

Security experts have warned for years that hackers could penetrate electronic voting systems, and now, leaked national security documents suggest a concerted effort to do just that in the 2016 US election.

Organizations Are Still Failing to Upgrade Systems and Enforce Patches, Study Finds