Kevin Lancaster Joins the usecure Board to Accelerate North American Channel Growth

Claymont, Delaware, 1st December 2025, CyberNewsWire...

Bridgestone Confirms Cyberattack Disrupting North American Plants

Bridgestone confirms a cyberattack that disrupted manufacturing plants. This article details the impact on employees, expert analysis, and…...

Cyber A.I. Group Announces LOI to Acquire Prominent North American Cybersecurity Firm

Miami, United States, 1st August 2024, CyberNewsWire...

Deceptive Discord Campaign Targets Government Entities with PureCrypter Malware

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Government entities in the Asia-Pacific and North American regions have been targeted by a threat actor using the PureCrypter malware downloader. This particular malware has been used to distribute vario...

Iranian state-sponsored APT group MuddyWater targeting organizations via malicious executables

THREAT LEVEL: Red. United States Cyber Command USCYBERCOM has warned of an ongoing cyber attack by Iranian state sponsored actor named as MuddyWater. This APT group is currently targeting Middle Eastern countries and has also targeted European and North American nations. The Iranian-backed...

TA505 Gang Is Back With Newly Polished FlawedGrace RAT

The TA505 cybercrime group is whirring its financial rip-off machinery back up, pelting malware at a range of industries in what was initially low-volume waves that researchers saw spiral up late last month. They do bad things, but they’re so tricky that tracking them is a ton of fun, said Sherro...

US Media, Retailers Targeted by New SparklingGoblin APT

An emerging international cybergang is broadening its targets to include North American media firms, universities and one computer retailer. The advanced persistent threat APT group is new, according to researchers who dubbed it SparklingGoblin. Also new is a novel backdoor technique, called...

‘PwnedPiper’: Devastating Bugs in >80% of Hospital Pneumatics

Researchers have discovered nine vulnerabilities – collectively dubbed PwnedPiper – in the pneumatic tube systems PTS used in more than 80 percent of major hospitals in North America. The bugs, in Swisslog Healthcare’s Translogic PTS, include hard-coded passwords, unencrypted connections and...

Meet critical infrastructure security compliance requirements with Microsoft 365

Critical infrastructure operators face a hostile cyber threat environment and a complex compliance landscape. Every operator of an industrial control system also operates an IT network to service its productivity needs. A supervisory control and data acquisition SCADA system operator of a power...

Pioneer Kitten APT Sells Corporate Network Access

An APT group known as Pioneer Kitten, linked to Iran, has been spotted selling corporate-network credentials on hacker forums. The credentials would let other cybercriminal groups and APTs perform cyberespionage and other nefarious cyber-activity. Pioneer Kitten is a hacker group that specializes...

Celebrating the Next Generation of Technology Innovators

At Trend Micro, it’s our mission to secure the connected world. However, we want to go beyond the boundaries of the cybersecurity industry to support and learn from the technology innovators of tomorrow. That’s what our venture arm, Trend Forward Capital, is all about. As part of these efforts, w...

FCC Addresses Robocalling – But Questions Remain

Robocalls and text spam – often in the service of widespread fraud campaigns – continue to persist, dogging consumers despite the existence of the national Do Not Call registry and efforts like the Truth in Caller ID Act. In an effort to alleviate the situation, Federal Communications Commission...

What You Need to Know from the North American PCI Community Meetings

Too busy to attend the PCI Community Meetings this year? Coalfire has you covered with the top 6 things you need to know from the most important annual payments conference in the world...

This Week in Security News: Macs, Hacks and Attacks

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, GitHub was hacked via their official account with cryptocurrency Sycoin. Also, a phishing attack targeting trustee company HealthEquity led ...

CVE-2014-6970

The North American Ismaili Games aka hr.apps.n166983741 application 5.26.2 for Android does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate...

CVE-2014-6970

The North American Ismaili Games aka hr.apps.n166983741 application 5.26.2 for Android does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate...

CVE-2014-6970

The CVE-2014-6970 entry affects the Android app North American Ismaili Games (5.26.2). The connected documents state that the application does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, enabling man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and harvest sensitive information through crafted ce...

Two final thoughts from the PCI Community Meeting

The 2014 North American PCI Community Meeting has drawn to a close, but the messages and lessons learned will continue to resonate with me long after Ive returned home to Denver. There were two messages from the SSC this week that really struck a chord with me and I wanted to expand on why I thin...

Level3 Outage Causing Major Internet Issues

UPDATED–There were widespread Internet outages and slowdowns on Monday after backbone provider Level3 Communications had a major outage, affecting some downstream providers and enterprises. The company says that the problem stemmed from a software issue with some of its routers. A source with...

DHS Names Weatherford as Deputy Under Secretary for Cybersecurity

Department of Homeland Security DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano appointed Mark Weatherford today as the National Protection and Programs Directorate’s NPPD new Deputy Under Secretary for Cybersecurity, according to a press release on the DHS’ site. The role was created by the Directorate in...