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Tech companies pledge billions in cybersecurity investments
Some of the country’s leading technology companies have committed to investing billions of dollars to strengthen cybersecurity defences and to train skilled workers, the White House has announced, following President Joe Biden’s private meeting with top executives. The gathering was held Wednesday during a relentless stretch of ransomware attacks that have targeted critical…
Hackers reportedly threaten to leak data from Gigabyte ransomware attack
Gigabyte has been the victim of a cyberattack, which was reportedly the work of a ransomware outfit called RansomEXX. According to The Record, the attack didn’t have an impact on any of the company’s production systems, but it did affect some internal servers. Currently, some parts of Gigabyte’s website, including its support section, are down,…
FlyTrap Android Malware Compromises Thousands of Facebook Accounts
A new Android Trojan codenamed FlyTrap has hit at least 140 countries since March 2021 and has spread to over 10,000 victims through social media hijacking, third-party app stores, and sideloaded applications. Zimperium’s zLabs mobile threat research teams recently found several previously undetected applications using Zimperium’s z9 malware engine and on-device detection. Following their forensic…
NATO’s Cybersecurity Policy and More
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Ransomware Hits Hundreds of US Companies, Security Firm Says | Voice of America
A ransomware attack paralyzed the networks of at least 200 U.S. companies Friday, according to a cybersecurity researcher whose company was responding to the incident. The REvil gang, a major Russian-speaking ransomware syndicate, appears to be behind the attack, said John Hammond of the security firm Huntress Labs. He said the criminals targeted a…
Rapid7 source code, credentials accessed in Codecov supply-chain attack
US cybersecurity firm Rapid7 has disclosed that some source code repositories were accessed in a security incident linked to the supply-chain attack that recently impacted customers of the popular Codecov code coverage tool. The computer and network security company has already notified a “small subset of customers” potentially impacted by this breach to take measures…