Mastercard disclosed a data breach that impacted customer data from the company’s Priceless Specials loyalty program. The American multinational financial services corporation notified the data breach to the German and Belgian Data Protection Authorities. The data leaked online includes customers’

Researchers at Pen Test Partners (PTP) discovered a privilege-escalation vulnerability in Lenovo Solution Centre (LSC) tracked as CVE-2019-6177. Security experts at Pen Test Partners (PTP) discovered a privilege-escalation vulnerability in Lenovo Solution Centre (LSC) that exists since 2011. “A vulnerability

Experts at Trend Micro discovered a new variant of the Asruex Trojan that exploits old Microsoft Office and Adobe vulnerabilities to infect systems. Malware researchers at Trend Micro discovered a new variant of the Asruex Trojan that exploits old Microsoft

Open-source Android spyware has appeared twice on Google Play. Research conducted by ESET discovered the first known instance of spyware based on the open-source espionage tool AhMyth lurking within a radio app available on Google Play. The app in question

Carbon Black has announced a definitive agreement to merge with VMware, with the virtualization company paying around $2.1bn for the endpoint protection vendor. With a view to create a “highly differentiated, intrinsic security cloud,” the deal will see VMware be

Ukrainian security service (SBU) agents have arrested several nuclear power plant employees in the country after they misguidedly tried to use their facility’s IT systems to mine for cryptocurrency. Local media reports this week said the incident occurred on July

The City of London Corporation has suffered nearly one million cyber-attacks each month for the first quarter of 2019, according to Freedom of Information (FOI) data obtained by Centrify. The security vendor wanted to find out more about the cyber-risks

Cisco provided updates for security advisories for three flaws affecting Cisco Small Business 220 Series Smart Switches patched in early August. Cisco has updated security advisories for three vulnerability in Cisco Small Business 220 Series Smart Switches that have been

Researchers discovered an open-source spyware AhMyth associated with Google play store app called RB Music to intrude the Android users device to steal various sensitive information. RB Music also know as Radio Balouch, a malicious streaming radio based Android app

ESET experts discovered that an Android app infected with AhMyth open-source RAT has bypassed the security of Google Play twice over two weeks. The popular malware researcher Lukas Stefanko from ESET discovered that a malicious spyware, built on the AhMyth

An annual report on cybercrime by the Federal Bureau of Investigation has revealed Alaska to be the most scammed state in America for the second year running. With more than $450 million stolen, sunny California lost more money than any

The IT security community overwhelmingly believes that government-mandated encryption backdoors will put countries at a greater risk of election hacking, according to new Venafi research. The security vendor polled over 380 security professionals at Black Hat USA 2019 in Las

Over a third of organizations have already suffered an attack on their cloud systems, yet many are failing to eradicate potential security blind spots, according to a new poll from Outpost24. The cyber-assessment vendor interviewed 300 attendees at this year’s

Organizations that prioritize patch updates primarily according to compliance requirements and use the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) struggle with their vulnerability management programs, according to new research. Cyber risk firm Kenna Security commissioned the Cyentia Institute to analyze data

The silence hacker group is one of the most active threat actors group that targets financial sectors. The group initially attacks banks in Russia and now the group expanded its geography. According to the report shared by Group-IB with GBHackers