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Web application attacks in the healthcare sector surged in December as distribution of the first COVID-19 vaccines began, according to new data from Imperva. The security vendor claimed that attacks jumped 51% last month from detected volumes in November in a vertical that has been bombarded by...

Microsoft has patched a zero-day bug in Windows Defender being actively exploited in the wild, as part of its monthly update round. The first Patch Tuesday of 2021 featured fixes for 83 vulnerabilities in Windows OS, Edge, Office, Visual Studio, .Net Core, .Net Repository, ASP .Net, Azure...

Big tech companies need to “raise the bar” on enhancing privacy and trust in their services in 2021. This was the message from a panel discussion at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2021, which included representatives from Google, Twitter and Amazon. This need for greater transparency has...

Malware authors continued to successfully leverage the COVID-19 pandemic last year to launch a wide variety of attacks, according to the 2020 Avira Report on Cybersecurity. The cybersecurity firm detected that cyber-attacks went up by 15% last year compared to 2019, observing that the rate of...

Mimecast has disclosed that some of its customers have been targeted by an advanced attack designed to compromise their Microsoft 365 (M365) environments. The security vendor said in a brief statement yesterday that a “sophisticated threat actor” obtained one of its certificates used to...

Gaming company Capcom has discovered that the number of customers whose data may have been compromised following a recent cyber-attack is much higher than previously thought. The Osaka-headquartered company became the victim of a ransomware attack in the beginning of November last year. On...

The owner of a Bulgarian bitcoin exchange has been sentenced to prison in the United States for his involvement in a transnational multimillion-dollar online auction fraud scheme that conned over 900 Americans out of more than $7m. After a two-week trial in September 2020, a federal jury in...

The first independent ethics officer to be appointed by the Florida city of Tallahassee has been arrested on cyber-stalking charges. Julie Meadows-Keefe is accused of stalking former city auditor Bert Fletcher, with whom she had an on-off romantic relationship both during and after the time...

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has confirmed that cyber-criminals who raided the organization in December have leaked some of those documents online. In a brief statement on Tuesday, it noted that the docs “related to COVID-19 medicines and vaccines belonging to third parties. “The agency...

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A US cybersecurity agency is urging organizations to improve their cyber-hygiene after warning of multiple successful attacks targeting cloud services used by remote workers. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) revealed in a report yesterday that attackers are...

Brad Smith, president of Microsoft, warned of the increasing cyber-threats to society as technology plays a more powerful role in our lives during his keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2021. While he outlined the potentially enormous benefits advancements in technologies...

Controversial connected device company Ring has added video end-to-end encryption (E2EE) to some of its products in a bid to boost user privacy and security. The Amazon-owned maker of smart doorbells first flagged the move last autumn, but will begin the roll-out this week as part of a...

Global IT innovator NTT DATA and payments technology provider Conferma Pay have announced a partnership to bring secure, digital virtual payment communications to hotels. The news comes at a time when more and more companies are seeking to implement contact-free payment processes to help reduce...

A preliminary settlement agreement regarding a data breach that impacted customers of Iowa-based grocery store chain Hy-Vee has been proposed. Hy-Vee launched an investigation after detecting unauthorized activity on some of its payment processing systems on July 29, 2019. The investigation...

A year-in-review report from Tenable’s Security Response Team found that 18,358 CVEs were reported in 2020, while only 17,305 were reported the previous year. While the increase between 2019 and 2020 may seem slight, the team found that from 2015 to 2020, the number of CVEs reported rose 183%...

There is a high risk of disinformation campaigns designed to spread panic and fear about the COVID-19 crisis, according to IT firm Fujitsu. In particular, it expects social engineering attacks to focus on fuelling uncertainty and doubt surrounding the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines as they...

There is a high risk of disinformation campaigns designed to spread panic and fear about the COVID-19 crisis, according to IT firm Fujitsu. In particular, it expects social engineering attacks to focus on fuelling uncertainty and doubt surrounding the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines as they...

An e-commerce “scam-as-a-service” operation tried-and-tested in Russia has expanded to multiple European countries in 2020, making cybercrime groups over $6.5m in the process, Group-IB has warned. The Singapore-based cybersecurity company claimed in a new report that “Classiscam” first appeared...

Facebook is suing two European developers for allegedly violating its terms of service by scraping user data. Legal action has been filed in Portugal by Facebook and Facebook Ireland against two individuals working for application/extension development company Oink and Stuff. The firm claims...