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The cyber-risks associated with connected operational technology (OT) systems were laid bare on Monday after an unknown online assailant tried to remotely poison the water supply of a Florida city. The attacker accessed the water treatment system for Oldsmar city in Pinellas County and tried to...

Sophos has warned businesses to be on the lookout for unsolicited and often generic emails attempting to extract a bug bounty from them with borderline extortion tactics. So-called “beg bounty” messages typically involve automated scanning for basic misconfigurations or vulnerabilities...

Polish video game company CD Projekt has revealed it has fallen victim to a cyber-attack in which some of its internal systems have been compromised and a number of devices in its network encrypted. The developer of the well-known video game Cyberpunk 2077 reported the incident in a tweet this...

A new independent body has been launched with the aim of boosting professional standards and career prospects for those working in cybersecurity. The UK Cyber Security Council will be funded by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) as part of the government’s five-year...

IT endpoint management and security provider Tanium has announced that Matt Thompson has joined its board of directors. Thompson joins as an independent director and will help the firm scale as it works toward its next chapter of growth. He most recently held the role of executive...

Nine in 10 (90%) users of dark web forums are searching for a hacker who can provide them with a particular resource or who can download a user database. This is according to new research by Positive Technologies, which analyzed activity on the 10 most prominent forums on the dark web, which...

Cybersecurity course publisher CODERED has formed a partnership with one of the world's largest fee-free online learning platforms. The publishing partnership between CODERED and Alison.com was announced earlier today. The first educational fruit to be born from this union is a certified online...

New data released today by Arkose Labs shows increased fraud across all industries since Black Friday, with North America's gaming industry being a primary target. As the popularity of online shopping continues under the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, researchers observed a surge in credential...

A US Army Cyber Command major has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for producing child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Jason Michael Musgrove, of Grovetown, Georgia, was arrested in December 2019. At the time of his apprehension by law enforcement officers, the 41-year-old was serving...

Microsoft has fixed 56 CVEs as part of this month’s Patch Tuesday, including several already publicly disclosed and one zero-day being actively exploited in the wild. Although the workload is relatively light for sysadmins this month, there’s plenty to be concerned about. The zero-day is...

Fraudsters are setting up Shopify-backed online stores to sell fake COVID-19 vaccination cards to anti-vaxxers, according to DomainTools. Due to the decentralized nature of the US healthcare system, the cards, which carry the logo of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), were...

Bank transfer romance fraud rose 20% year-on-year between January and November 2020, according to new figures from UK Finance. Published shortly before this year’s Valentine’s Day, the trade association revealed that the total value of this type of scam – in which victims are duped into sending...

The number of attacks resulting in large-scale credential theft has almost doubled over the past four years, although the volume of breached login pairs declined, according to F5. The security vendor’s 2021 Credential Stuffing Report warned that although average breach volumes declined from 63...

Estonia-based online identity verification company Veriff has announced the appointment of Amish Mody as its new chief financial officer (CFO). Mody joins Veriff from FinTech firm Monese, where he served as VP of finance for five years, overseeing the company’s development from pre-launch to a...

A man from New York has admitted hacking into the social media accounts of female college students and stealing intimate photographs to trade online. Over a two-year period, Rochester resident Nicholas Faber compromised the accounts of dozens of women attending State University of New York...

A researcher claims to have hacked into the internal systems of major companies including Apple and Microsoft using a novel supply chain attack. Alex Biran created malicious node packages and uploaded them to the npm registry under unclaimed names. The node packages collected information...

Tenable Holdings today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Active Directory security startup Alsid SAS for $98m in cash. Alsid specializes in providing a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution that monitors the security of Active Directory in real time. The...

Russian internet giant Yandex has revealed that thousands of its customers had their accounts accessed due to a malicious insider working at the firm. The Moscow-headquartered multi-national provides search, email, e-commerce and even ride-hailing services, and claims to have tens of millions...

Two men have been charged with a dark web drug distribution conspiracy said to be worth millions of dollars. Kevin Ombisi, 31, and Eric Russell Jr, 35, both of Katy, Texas, were each charged in a complaint filed in the Western District of Tennessee after being arrested last Thursday. Ombisi is...

The Scottish Business Resilience Center (SBRC) has announced a ransomware-focused update to its facilitation of the National Cyber Security Center’s (NCSC) Exercise in a Box program, which it has been running with businesses across Scotland since late 2020. The program – delivered with support...