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On Monday, Google unveiled the public trial of a new tool to identify vulnerabilities within Virtual Machines (VMs) running on its Google cloud infrastructure. The new Virtual Machine Threat Detection (VMTD) feature, which is now available in the Security Command Center (SCC), performs agentless memory...

Meter, a blockchain infrastructure company, said $4.4 million was taken during a cyberattack on the network on Saturday morning at about 9 a.m. ET. The cyberattack impacted the Meter and Moonriver networks. During the event, 1391 ETH and 2.74 BTC were stolen. Meter halted all bridge transactions after ...

Zimbra is an open-source email platform often used by many European organizations in place of Microsoft Exchange. In December 2021, there is an active exploitation of Zero-day vulnerability in Zimbra as a part of the spear-phishing campaign, which Volexity discovered. The codename Email Thief: An Activ...

For making more than half a million unwanted marketing calls in nine months, a home renovation firm was fined £200,000. According to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), Home2Sense Ltd of Lampeter, Wales, made 675,478 nuisance calls between June 2020 and March 2021, promoting insulation services to c...

BlackCat, the latest ransomware threat to surface on underground forums, has quickly established itself in the Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) cybercriminal marketplace by providing "affiliates" 80% to 90% of ransoms and actively naming and shaming victims on a name-and-shame site. According to a recen...

The National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) has issued a warning to UK businesses to be on the lookout for Russian cyber-attacks. This comes after the NCSC blamed Russia for a slew of malicious cyber-attacks in Ukraine. Because of the United Kingdom's backing for Ukraine throughout the crisis, it is likely to b...

A setup issue caused a data breach at a drug screening lab in Florida county. The security breach occurred at the Drug Screening Lab (SLC Lab) of St. Lucie County, which provides drug testing services for employment, court proceedings, and other purposes. In a statement released on January 20, 2022, co...

The cybersecurity researchers at ESET security discovered a never-before-seen virus known as "DazzleSpy" in macOS, utilizing a Safari web browser exploit. Attackers were found using nearly impossible exploits to detect, and users were unable to halt it once they landed on an infected page. This shows t...

Researchers uncovered two severe flaws in Control Web Panel (CWP), a prominent web hosting management program used by over 200K servers, that could enable root-level Remote Code Execution (RCE) on susceptible Linux systems.  CWP, originally CentOS Web Panel, is an open-source Linux control panel softw...

The Rust programming language's maintainers have released a security update for a high-severity vulnerability that might be used by a malicious party to remove files and directories from a susceptible system unlawfully. Rust is a multi-paradigm, general-purpose programming language that emphasizes perf...