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Bank of America Corporation has disclosed a data breach affecting clients who have applied for the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). Client information was exposed on April 22 when the bank uploaded PPP applicants’ details onto the US Small Business Administration’s

The CyberNews research team uncovered an unsecured Amazon Simple Storage Service bucket of confidential user chat logs belonging to Real estate app Tellus, a US-based software company. Tellus is a software company based in Palo Alto, California, backed by “well-known

Thais are deserting Twitter in favor of the blockchain-based social networking tool Minds. Minds is a free and open source distributed social networking service that gives users ERC20 tokens that can be used to promote content or crowdfund other users.

The National Grid Gas Transmission (NGGT) and National Grid Electricity Transmission (NGET) in the UK have become the newest members of the European Network for Cybersecurity (ENCS), in a move designed to better protect the European energy sector against cyber-attacks.

A joint operations conducted by experts from Chinese firms Qihoo 360 Netlab and Baidu dismantle the ShuangQiang ‘s botnet infecting over hundreds of thousands of systems. A joint operation conducted by Chinese security firm Qihoo 360 Netlab and tech giant Baidu

Cybersecurity experts are calling for the legal sector to be defined as critical to securing national infrastructure, after revealing that 100% of law firms were targeted by attackers in the first quarter of 2020. BlueVoyant appraised thousands of law firms

New research has found a measurable increase in DNS cache miss traffic levels, and a number of previously unknown DDoS events. According to Farsight Security, analysis of DNS cache miss traffic levels over the two-month period of March-April 2020 revealed

The UK’s plans to ease its COVID-19 lockdown have been thrown into doubt after half the public said it does not trust the government to handle their data collected via a key contact tracing app. The app is a crucial

Truecaller is used to identifying unknown callers and also provide options to red-flags spammers. The app was developed by True Software Scandinavia AB, a private company in Stockholm, Sweden. Recently it was observed by Cyble’s researcher that unprotected Amazon S3

A new Android bug dubbed StrandHogg 2.0 affects all devices running Android 9.0 and earlier. The bug lets malicious apps pose a legitimate app and steal victim data. The bug was found by the Promon researchers tracked as (CVE-2020-0096) and

Researchers disclosed a new critical vulnerability (CVE-2020-0096, aka StrandHogg 2.0) affecting the Android operating system that could allow attackers to carry out a sophisticated version of Strandhogg attack. A group of Norwegian researchers disclosed a critical flaw, tracked as CVE-2020-0096,

A plea from the Cyber Peace Institute for healthcare providers to be protected against cyber-threats has attracted international support. Major players in cybersecurity, academics, and numerous political movers and shakers have backed the call for governments to work together “with

Details of a new version of the ComRAT backdoor, one of the oldest malware families run by the notorious cyber-espionage group Turla, have been outlined by ESET. The findings will be of particular concern for government agencies, such as militaries

The National Guard has been working to keep Maryland safe from cyber-attacks. Maryland governor Larry Hogan called in the National Guard by executive order on March 12 to bolster the state’s COVID-19 pandemic response. In addition to assisting the Old

Researchers uncovered a new advanced variant of Turla’s ComRAT backdoor that leverages Gmail’s web interface as C2 infrastructure. Cybersecurity researchers discovered a new version of the ComRAT backdoor, also known as Agent.BTZ, which is a malware that was employed in

The ComRAT malware is a remote administration tool and is used by the Turla hacker group. It was first spotted in November 2014. The Trula hacker group is active for more than ten years. ComRAT malware also known as Agent.BTZ,