Hoxhunt, a Helsinki, Finland–based cybersecurity training platform provider, raised $40 million in Series B funding. The round was led by Level Equity Management, with participation from existing investor Icebreaker.vc.
Microsoft began rolling out security defaults to customers who created a new Azure AD tenant after October 2019, but didn’t enable the defaults for customers that created Azure AD tenants prior to October 2019.
The experts at Cyber Research Labs warn of ransomware attacks against government organizations. They observed a total of 48 government organizations from 21 countries that were hit by 13 ransomware attacks in 2022.
The Singapore government on Tuesday announced plans to set aside SG$23.5 million (US$17.09 million) to support three national platforms, parked under its Quantum Engineering Programme (QEP), for up to 3.5 years.
Anonymous-affiliated collective Spid3r claims to have attacked Belarus’ government websites in retaliation for the country’s alleged support of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The BBC has revealed details of how a food bank in the United Kingdom was conned out of about $63,000 (£50,000) by scammers who used two separate attacks to fleece their victims.
Cypress College and Fullerton College experienced a ransomware attack. They immediately took steps to confirm the security of their systems, including the deployment of an advanced threat protection and monitoring tool.
Security is the weakest when sysadmins and developers race against time and deadlines. Opportunistic attackers take advantage of the “economy of attention” as developers can often overlook security risks.
The FBI alerted that credentials stolen from the higher education sector are being sold on multiple public and dark web marketplaces. In some cases, VPN and network access credentials are being sold for thousands of dollars. The FBI recommends colleges and universities pay special attention to connections via remote desktop protocols.
A recent study estimates that a staggering $39.5 billion was lost to phone scams this past year, which is the highest number recorded since Truecaller began researching scam and spam calls in the U.S. eight years ago.