The United States’ Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has awarded two organizations, NPower and CyberWarrior, $2m to develop cybersecurity workforce training programs.

This latest round takes the total funding Picus has received to $33 million. The company plans to use the funds to help accelerate its expansion in EMEA and APAC countries.

Microsoft unveiled a new suite of tools on Thursday built to protect nonprofits as threats against philanthropic organizations globally have skyrocketed, particularly from nation-states.

When installed, the malware will communicate with a Command & Control server, where it waits for commands to execute by the attacker, which could entail the running of additional malware.

Google announced the launch of its first bug bounty program for Android Enterprise with rewards of up to $250,000. This builds on the introduction of several security enhancements in Android 12.

As part of the non-profit Trusted Computing Group (TCG), the companies have created a new Supply Chain Security workgroup that will aim to bring in experts from across the tech sphere.

Security researchers have discovered over two million social media user profiles scraped from the internet after they were unwittingly exposed online by an analytics firm, Infosecurity can reveal.

The scenario that was presented to victims is that their accounts have been hacked, and so for reasons of safety, they needed to transfer whatever remaining money they had to a secure ‘vault account’.

Discord, a popular VoIP, instant messaging, and digital distribution platform used by 140 million people in 2021, is being abused by cybercriminals to deploy malware files.