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The agency at the helm of Singapore’s digital services, the Government Technology Agency of Singapore (GovTech Singapore), announced that Singapore will be working with security researchers over the course of three weeks on a bug bounty program intended to further

Researchers have discovered a kernel-based vulnerability in a driver bundled with IBM Trusteer Rapport for MacOS, according to a recently published advisory from Trustwave. If exploited, the vulnerability could elevate privileges on the local machine, allowing an attacker to subvert

Researchers at Palo Alto Networks discovered that the Russian-linked Sofacy APT has written a new version of their Zebrocy backdoor using the Go programming language. The Sofacy APT group has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted

Siemens addressed several vulnerabilities in SINUMERIK controllers, including denial-of-service (DoS), privilege escalation and code execution issues. Siemens has fixed several flaws in SINUMERIK controllers, some of them have been classified as “critical.” The list of vulnerabilities includes DoS, privilege escalation

Security researchers at Trend Micro have spotted a new strain of malware that retrieved commands from memes posted on a Twitter account controlled by the attackers. In this way, attackers make it hard to detect traffic associated with the malware

In its latest Email Security Risk Assessment (ESRA), Mimecast found that incumbent email security systems inaccurately deemed nearly 17,000 dangerous files “safe” this quarter. Email scams have been on the rise, which is partly what prompted Mimecast to dig into

Printers around the world appear to have been hijacked again with a message to subscribe to a popular YouTube vlogger, and improve their cybersecurity. Those behind the attack are thought to be the same ones that managed to get a

A leading children’s charity was conned into sending $1m to a fraudster’s bank account this year, in another example of the dangers of Business Email Compromise (BEC). Save the Children Federation, the US outpost of the world-famous British non-profit, revealed

Researchers have discovered a new version of ThreadKit, malware known to be used by Cobalt Group, first identified in 2016, according to Fidelis Cybersecurity. In the recently released report, Fidelis threat research analysts found that despite reported arrests, Cobalt Group

Good news for the victims of the dreaded HiddenTear Ransomware, the popular cybersecurity expert Michael Gillespie has devised a tool dubbed HT Brute Forcer that could allow decrypting files for free. In 2015, the Turkish security researchers Utku Sen published

Security experts at Palo Alto Networks uncovered a new espionage campaign carried out by Russia-Linked APT group Sofacy. Russian Cyber espionage group Sofacy (aka APT28, Pawn Storm, Fancy Bear, Sednit, Tsar Team, and Strontium)) carried out a new cyber campaign

US DoD Inspector General’s report revealed United States’ ballistic missile defense systems (BMDS) fail to implements cyber security requirements. The U.S. Department of Defense Inspector General published a report this week that revealed that lack of adequate cybersecurity for the

Law enforcement agencies across the country spent the better part of yesterday evening investigating a slew of bomb threats delivered by email to businesses and universities across the US and Canada. The hoax email warning that an explosive device was

Researcher Terence Eden discovered that the permissions dialog when authorizing certain apps to Twitter could expose direct messages to the third-party. The flaw is triggered when apps that require a PIN to complete the authorization process instead of the using

McAfee uncovered a campaign tracked as Operation Sharpshooter that hit at least 87 organizations in global defense and critical infrastructure. Security experts at McAfee uncovered a hacking campaign, tracked as Operation Sharpshooter, aimed at infrastructure companies worldwide. The threat actors

Oil services company Saipem, based in Milan, Italy, was the victim of a cyber-attack that appears to be targeting servers in the Middle East, according to reports from Reuters. The attack targeted servers in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates