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Chris Ensor, deputy director, NCSC, highlights the need to provide clarity around the skills required for specific cybersecurity rolesRead More: https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/securelondon-cyber-roles-skills/

Six phony anti-virus apps have been removed from the Google Play app store because instead of protecting users from cyber criminals, they were actually being used to deliver malware to

Vectra study finds many are seeking help for stress-related issuesRead More: https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/half-security-leaders-consider/

Microsoft is rolling out an automatic Windows and Office software update service to its enterprise customers, which aims to turn ‘Patch Tuesday’ into just another Tuesday. Microsoft is releasing Windows

Researchers discover database exposed through misconfigurationRead More: https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/employee-info-13-million-records/

VMware is urging customers to update their software to resolve critical vulnerabilities, including a remote code execution (RCE) bug in Workspace ONE Access. On Wednesday, the tech giant published a

Coordinated effort removes malware from C&C devicesRead More: https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/us-action-disrupts-russian-botnet/

The sector most heavily impacted by the Spring4Shell Java flaw is technology, according to security firm Check Point. Spring4Shell is a bug worth paying attention to and could be a

Zoom has awarded $1.8 million to researchers who submitted bug bounty reports over 2021.  Bug bounty programs, whether private and available to invitees-only or public, where anyone can submit a

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has effectively banned the general use of telecommunications data retention for combating crime across the European Union. In a judgment delivered by the ECJ’s

High-ranking Israeli officials are being catfished in a new cyberespionage campaign launched by AridViper.  AridViper, also known as APT-C-23, Desert Falcon, and Two-tailed Scorpion, is a politically-driven advanced persistent threat

Image: Visuals6x — Shutterstock Losses from Australians to investment scams increased by 90% to AU$103 million from the start of the year to March 20, with the Australian Competition and

Image: Getty Images The 1,900 new jobs promised in the federal government’s new AU$ 9.9 billion cyber program will not solely be in the areas of cybersecurity and IT, Australian

Image: Jam Sta Rosa/AFP via Getty Images Vietnamese blockchain game company Sky Mavis and makers of the play-to-earn game Axie Infinity have announced a $150 million fundraising round to help

The US Justice Department in March carried out an operation that successfully removed malware known as “Cyclops Blink” from vulnerable internet-connected firewall devices, the department announced Wednesday. The operation disrupted

Third-party entities go out of their way to collect data from you. In your web browser they use tracking cookies extensively and nearly every browser on the market goes to

Ukrtelecom claimed Russian hackers launched the attacks after compromising the credentials of an employee in an occupied area of the countryRead More: https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/attack-ukraine-telecoms-employee/

Image: Glenn Carstens Peters via Unsplash This is a sensitive topic. Owners of entertainment content go to great lengths to control the distribution of their wares, especially when it comes

Screens on charge points in Isle of Wight council car parks hacked to show explicit contentRead More: https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/electric-vehicle-chargers-hacked/

Ransomware refers to malicious software that encrypts all of the data in your computer’s operating system and then proceeds to demand a ransom to decrypt the encrypted data. The commonly

A new malware variant that targets AWS Lambda has been discovered. On Wednesday, researchers from Cado Security published their findings on Denonia, malware currently being used in targeted attacks against

The Conti ransomware gang is still actively running campaigns against victims around the world, despite the inner workings of the group being revealed by data leaks.  One of the most

Microsoft claims that Windows 11 will bring major security improvements and had detailed a number of them, Not many businesses are using Windows 11 right now because of the high

A hacking and cyber espionage operation is going after victims around the world in a widespread campaign designed to snoop on targets and steal information.  Identified victims of the cyber

Google has upgraded its Vulnerability Rewards Program (or VRP) with more reward payments for hackers who find bugs in its Nest devices and those from Fitbit which it bought in January

Researchers say that malicious Android applications disguised as legitimate shopping apps are stealing Malaysian bank customers’ financial data.  On Wednesday, ESET’s cybersecurity team published new research documenting three separate apps

New vulnerability exploited most widely in EuropeRead More: https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/fifth-global-firms-targeted/

Seven alleged scammers arrested in JohannesburgRead More: https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/south-african-us-officers-fraud/

Payments giant says Cash App customers may be impactedRead More: https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/block-warns-eight-million-insider/

Singapore has taken another step towards a new bill that seeks to impose higher penalties on financial institutions that suffer a security breach as a result of oversight. It also

Block, formerly known as Square, has confirmed a data breach that involved a former employee downloading reports from its bitcoin-enabled Cash App that contained information about its US customers. In

Getty Images The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has shut down Hydra Market, one of the world’s largest darknet marketplaces. On Tuesday, the DOJ and German federal police seized Hydra’s