As senior correspondent for Information Security Media Group's global news desk, Ishita covers news worldwide. She previously worked at Thomson Reuters, where she specialized in reporting breaking news stories on a variety of topics.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers has introduced a bill that calls for investing $100 billion in research on science and emerging technologies, including cybersecurity, quantum computing and artificial intelligence.
The FBI has arrested another alleged member of the FIN7 cybercrime gang, which has been stealing millions of payment cards and other financial data since at least September 2015. It's the fourth arrest of those tied to the group.
Two years after it was last seen in February 2018, ZLoader banking malware has resurfaced, with cybercriminals wielding a new version that gets distributed via email campaigns, security firm Proofpoint warns.
Some fraudsters waging phishing campaigns are using fake websites hosted on Google's Firebase Storage service in an attempt to harvest credentials, according to Trustwave, which notes the phishing emails contain links to the service to make them look more credible.
The Security Service of Ukraine this week arrested a hacker known as "Sanix" who allegedly sold combinations of millions of email passwords and usernames on darknet forums.
Fraudsters are now using numerous spoofed website templates with COVID-19 themes as part of phishing attacks designed to steal login credentials and banking data, according to Proofpoint.
U.S. facilities that produce, use or store hazardous chemicals are vulnerable to cyberattacks, in part because cybersecurity guidelines from the Department of Homeland Security are outdated, according to a recent GAO audit.
ARCHER, a British high-performance computing system for academic and theoretical research, has been offline since May 11, when a "security incident" forced the University of Edinburgh to take down the supercomputer. The security incident also affected supercomputers in other parts of Europe, university officials say.
Fraudsters are honing their phishing emails tied to the COVID-19 crisis, using fake messages about business continuity plans and new payment procedures to spread the LokiBot information stealer, Microsoft researchers report.
The increasing use of internet-connected devices in manufacturing facilities is opening up new ways for hackers to target so-called "smart" factories with unconventional attack methods, according to an analysis by security firm Trend Micro and the Polytechnic University of Milan.
Diebold Nixdorf, one of the largest makers of ATMs, says it sustained a ransomware attack on April 25, but it experienced only a "limited IT systems outage" and ATM machines were not affected.
After offering three large databases of compromised user data for sale on the darknet last week, a hacking group known as Shiny Hunters now is trying to sell four additional databases of information apparently gathered from data breaches, security researchers say.
Hackers are attempting to sell a fresh trove of approximately 26 million user records apparently obtained from three data breaches, according to researchers at the security firm ZeroFox.
Ransomware attacks hit at least four large organizations around the world this week, including a hospital group in Europe that has been battling the COVID-19 pandemic.
German prosecutors believe that an alleged Russian hacker who apparently is a member of an elite military unit is responsible for the 2015 cyberattack against Germany's parliament, according to a news report. Earlier, the suspect was charged in connection with U.S. 2016 election interference.
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