Perspecta Labs–the innovative applied research arm of Perspecta Inc.–has been awarded a defensive cyber-contract potentially worth $14.5m by the United States Army. The lucrative contract was handed out by the US Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC), Command, Control, Computers,

A database containing what appears to be the data of thousands of UniCredit S.p.A employees is being advertised for sale on cybercrime forums. The Italian global banking and financial services company has more than 8,500 branches in 17 countries and

Nearly 25,000 email credentials allegedly from NIH, WHO, Gates Foundation and other organizations involved in the containment of COVID-19 pandemic are dumped online While the principal organizations engaged in the fight against COVID-19 are the targets of conspiracy theories, a

A ransomware attack has thrown operations at New Jersey company Cognizant into disarray, compromising internal systems. The IT services provider confirmed on April 18 that it had fallen victim to a ransomware attack perpetrated by the threat group Maze. Services

The volume of attacks on cloud services more than doubled in 2019, in line with the trend of organizations increasingly moving operations to the cloud, according to the 2020 Trustwave Global Security Report. Amongst a range of cybersecurity trends from

Concerns regarding “solutions” to the current COVID-19 pandemic, including contact tracing apps, have been raised with some resolutions offered by global scientists and researchers. In a joint statement on contact tracing signed by over 300 professors and academics from around

Hackers are turning their attention to streaming services in an ongoing bid to capitalize on the current COVID-19 pandemic and increase their own profits, according to Mimecast. The email security vendor revealed that it had detected the registration of over

Thousands of US businesses may have had personal information (PII) leaked online after a government agency error led to problems with applications for economic relief. The Small Business Administration (SBA) admitted the error in a letter to affected companies widely

Speaking at the Genetec Connect’DX digital conference, Mathieu Chevalier, lead security architect and Laurent Villeneuve, product marketing manager, video surveillance, both at Genetec, discussed the biggest trends in cybersecurity in 2020, the nature of cyber-threats currently being faced by organizations

China-linked Winnti cyberespionage group targets South Korean video gaming company Gravity, QuoIntelligence (QuoINT) firm reported. Security experts from QuoIntelligence (QuoINT) firm reported that China-linked Winnti cyberespionage group targets South Korean video gaming company Gravity. The Winnti group was first spotted

An unsecured online database is to blame for yet another major privacy incident after fitness tech company Kinomap accidentally leaked 42 million records including personal identity data (PII). Researchers at vpnMentor found the wide-open data trove as part of an

Security researcher Pedro Ribeiro, Director of Research at Agile Information Security disclosed four zero-day vulnerabilities on GitHub after the company refused to fix them and accept. The vulnerabilities found with IBM Data Risk Manager (IDRM) enterprise security software, which helps

Cynet today announced the company’s IR Challenge for incident response professionals. By participating in this event, Incident Responders challenged to match their skills against colleagues in the first of its kind contest with $5,000 Prize. Cynet 360 is the world’s

Terahash Acquires L0phtCrack Password auditing and recovery software L0phtCrack has been acquired by Terahash LLC for an undisclosed sum. L0phtCrack is used to test password strength and sometimes to recover lost Microsoft Windows passwords by using dictionary, brute-force, hybrid attacks, and rainbow tables. It was originally

US Ransomware Attacks Plummet Ransomware attacks on the United States have diminished significantly and are “now at a level not seen in several years,” according to cybersecurity company Emsisoft. In new research published today, Emsisoft found a marked drop in ransomware attacks on

A Quarter of Website Traffic Is Bad Bots New research published today by Imperva has found that bad bots made up nearly a quarter of overall website traffic in 2019. The report was built from data collected from Imperva’s global network and includes hundreds