From TrickBot to Ryuk, more malware cybercriminal groups are putting their heads together when attacking businesses. [...]

Researchers said they saw a seven-times increase in ransomware activity in the fourth quarter of 2020, across various families – from Ryuk to Egregor. [...]

Retailers that lacked significant digital presence pre-COVID are now reaching new audiences through e-commerce sites that are accessible anytime, from anywhere, on any device. [...]

Vietnam joins the ranks of governments using spyware to crack down on human-rights defenders. [...]

A teenaged ethical hacker discovered a flawed endpoint associated with a health-department website in the state of Bengal, which exposed personally identifiable information related to test results. [...]

The malicious extension, FriarFox, snoops in on both Firefox and Gmail-related data. [...]

Cisco also stomped out a critical security flaw affecting its Nexus 3000 Series Switches and Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches. [...]

Quickbooks malware targets tax data for attackers to sell and use in phishing scams. [...]

Mozilla said its Total Cookie Protection feature in Firefox 86 prevents invasive, cross-site cookie tracking. [...]

The vulnerability, one of three patched by the company this week, could allow threat actors to breach the external perimeter of a data center or leverage backdoors already installed to take over a system. [...]

The hotly anticipated GeForce RTX 3060, a ray-tracing-friendly, advanced gaming graphics chip, will also throttle Ethereum mining. [...]

As more organizations migrate to Office 365, cybercriminals are using Outlook, Teams and other Microsoft-themed phishing lures to swipe user credentials. [...]

NurseryCam suspends service across 40 daycare centers until a security fix is in place. [...]

A critical-severity buffer-overflow flaw that affects IBM Integration Designer could allow remote attackers to execute code. [...]

A major Finnish IT provider has been hit with a ransomware attack that has forced the company to turn off some services and infrastructure in a disruption to customers, while it takes recovery measures. Norwegian business journal E24 reported the attack on Espoo, Finland-based TietoEVRY on Tuesday, claiming to …

Microsoft users are receiving emails pretending to be from mail couriers FedEx and DHL Express - but that really steal their credentials. [...]

The FBI has warned that telephony denial-of-service attacks are taking aim at emergency dispatch centers, which could make it impossible to call for police, fire or ambulance services. [...]

APT31, a Chinese-affiliated threat group, copied a Microsoft Windows exploit previously used by the Equation Group, said researchers. [...]

Two breaches of the audio-based social media app reinforce privacy, security concerns. [...]

The threat actors stole data and used Clop's leaks site to demand money in an extortion scheme, though no ransomware was deployed. [...]

Sneaky attackers are flipping backslashes in phishing email URLs to evade protections, researchers said. [...]

A second malware that targets Macs with Apple's in-house M1 chip is infecting machines worldwide -- but it's unclear why. [...]

RIPE NCC, the regional Internet registry for Europe, West Asia, and the former Soviet Union, said attackers attempted a credential-stuffing attack against its single-sign on service. [...]

However, internal products and systems were not leveraged to attack others during the massive supply-chain incident, the tech giant said upon completion of its Solorigate investigation. [...]

The Department of Justice (DoJ) cracked down on a Ghana-based cybercriminal enterprise behind a slew of romance scams, COVID-19 fraud attacks and business email compromise schemes since 2013. [...]