Sabre Corp. will make a $2.4 million payout and shore up its cybersecurity policies under an agreement with 27 state attorneys general who investigated a breach of its hotel-booking technology.

HelpSystems, a Minneapolis, Minnesota-based software company, announced on Wednesday that it has acquired cloud-based data protection solution provider Vera for an undisclosed amount.

The schemes to defraud people have gone to such an extent that threat actors were found running scams by impersonating biotechnology companies involved in the development of COVID-19 vaccines.

The phishing attack impersonating the U.S. Postal Service sought to get victims to give up their credit card credentials and pay a special delivery fee within three days to ensure package delivered.

The issue, which advanced hackers exploited as a zero-day in May, is still exploitable but by a different method as security researchers demonstrate with publicly available proof-of-concept code.

The CISA said on Wednesday that a sprawling cyber espionage campaign made public earlier this month is affecting state and local governments, although it released few additional details.

Targeted ransomware attacks on the healthcare and pharma sector will surge in India in 2021 as companies finalize their vaccines to fight Covid-19, a new report said on Wednesday.

The Iranian-backed Fox Kitten hacking group is suspected to be behind the nefarious acts of Pay2Key ransomware that began a new wave of attacks in November-December 2020.

Cybercriminals lock down networks for one simple reason: it’s the quickest and easiest way to make money from a compromised organization and they’re unlikely to get caught.

Texas-based SolarWinds told the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that its executives were not aware that the company had been breached when they decided to sell stock.