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ThreatMate has raised $3.2 million in seed funding for its AI-powered attack surface management solution for MSPs.

Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: NanoLock Security ceases operations, NSO publishes transparency report, cybersecurity salaries data.  

Hospital Sisters Health System says the personal information of 883,000 individuals was compromised in a 2023 crippling cyberattack.

UK engineering firm IMI says it suffered a cyberattack that resulted in unauthorized access to some of its systems.

University Diagnostic Medical Imaging and Allegheny Health Network have disclosed data breaches impacting approximately 430,000 patients.

An analysis by Chainalysis shows that ransomware payments dropped to $813 million in 2024, from $1.25 billion in 2023. 

Trimble Cityworks is affected by a zero-day vulnerability that has been exploited in attacks involving the delivery of malware.

A bipartisan duo in the the U.S. House is proposing legislation to ban the Chinese artificial intelligence app DeepSeek from federal devices.

Zimperium warns that threat actors have stolen the information of tens of thousands of Android users in India using over 1,000 malicious applications.

Astra Security and Invary have received new funding to fuel development of their vulnerability scanning and runtime security solutions.

Spanish authorities have arrested an individual who allegedly hacked several high-profile organizations, including NATO and the US army.

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Gigamon has promoted Tony Jarjoura to CFO and Ram Bhide has been hired as Senior VP of engineering.

Cloud security firm Mitiga has appointed Charlie Thomas as Chief Executive Officer.

Cynet announced the appointment of Jason Magee as Chief Executive Officer.

Ajay Garg has joined Saviynt as Chief Development Officer.

Penetration testing and offensive security firm Cobalt has named Gunter Ollmann as Chief Technology Officer.

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Hospital Sisters Health System says the personal information of 883,000 individuals was compromised in a 2023 crippling cyberattack.

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A bipartisan duo in the the U.S. House is proposing legislation to ban the Chinese artificial intelligence app DeepSeek from federal devices.

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Spanish authorities have arrested an individual who allegedly hacked several high-profile organizations, including NATO and the US army.

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David Kennedy is a hacker. There is no doubt about that. He has qualities common among hackers, but also many differences.

Multiple Zyxel legacy DSL CPE products are affected by exploited zero-day vulnerabilities that will not be patched.

AMD has released patches for a microprocessor vulnerability found by Google that could allow an attacker to load malicious microcode.

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SEOUL - North Korea on Friday accused the United States and South Korea of carrying out a "persistent and intensive" cyber attack against its official websites in recent days. A number of official North Korean websites, including those of the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), the daily Rodong Sinmun newspaper, and Air Koryo airline became inaccessible early Wednesday.

WASHINGTON - US federal authorities charged a Reuters social media editor Thursday with conspiring with the hacktivist group Anonymous to break into and alter an online Los Angeles Times article. Matthew Keys, 26, was indicted in California on three counts of felonies related to hacking before his current Reuters post. He faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

Sophisticated attackers are expanding their reconnaissance methods to gain an advantage in their quest to compromise data. According to a new report from Mandiant entitled 'Attack the Security Gap', attackers are starting to target data related to network infrastructure, processing methodologies and system and administration guides in order to gather information they can use to exploit networks and system more efficiently.

A malware infection has led administrators at the National Institute of Standards and Technology to take the U.S. National Vulnerability Database (NVD) offline.The NVD site currently bears the following message: "Site/Page Not Available. The NIST National Vulnerability Database (NVD) has experienced an issue with its Web Services and is currently not available. We are working to restore service as quickly as possible. We will provide updates as soon as new information is available."

Attackers are Thinking Outside of the Sandbox and so Must We...Over the years we’ve all heard claims of ‘silver bullet’ solutions to solve security problems. One of the most recent claims has been around the use of sandboxing technology alone to fight advanced malware and targeted threats.

To Provide a Robust Team Capable of Supporting 24x7 Coverage, a Team of Specialists is Paramount to Securing any Infrastructure. In this column I intend to break away from the previous discussions about doctrine as it applies to operations and focus on something the military calls “force structure.”

Israeli Website for International Institute for Counter-Terrorism Used in Watering Hole AttacksResearchers have detected a pair of websites related to the Israeli government which appear to have been compromised as part of a "watering hole" attack, Websense said today.

SAN FRANCISCO - Andy Rubin, the brains behind the Google Android operating system which has become the dominant mobile platform, is stepping down as head of that division, the company said Wednesday. Google chief Larry Page announced that Sundar Pichai, the head of its Chrome laptop unit, will take over the team in charge of Android software for smartphones and tablet computers.

BEIJING - China has expressed a willingness to cooperate with the United States and others to combat hacking, after a top US official warned the international community was losing patience with Beijing. Foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying, while reiterating China's position that it is a victim of attacks in cyberspace, said Beijing was in favour of global cooperation on the issue.

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