The DHS bug bounty program, launched in December 2021, brought the agency up to speed with other agencies that already had bug bounty programs, such as the DoD and the IRS, which both launched their programs in 2016.

Sophos has announced to acquire the early-stage vendor SOC.OS to help customers detect abnormalities in their IT environment earlier by ingesting data from third-party platforms.

Indian oil companies faced 360,000 cyberattacks in six months, a study conducted by CyberPeace Foundation, a civil society organization, along with Autobot Infosec and CyberPeace Center of Excellence, has found.

Zero-day disclosures are of particular interest to hackers because they have a wider exploitation window until vendors address the flaws and clients start applying the updates.

An American respiratory care provider is facing multiple lawsuits over a data breach that allegedly exposed the personal information of more than 300,000 current and former patients.

The phishing message uses the subject “Azovstal” and a weaponized office document. Upon opening the attachment and enabling the macro, it will start the infection process.

GeniusU, a Singapore-based education technology company, has been fined $35,000 for a data breach that resulted in the theft of 1.26 million users’ personal data, one of the largest data breaches in recent years.

DeFi platforms have gained a lot of traction in recent years. However, cryptocurrency transfers from illegal digital wallets to DeFi platforms skyrocketed by nearly 2,000% between 2020 and 2021 alone, according to Chainalysis.

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced that it will provide $12 million in funding to six university teams to develop defense and mitigation tools to protect US energy delivery systems from cyberattacks.