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  Microsoft, McAfee, Rapid7, and Others Form New Ransomware Task Force High-profile security vendors and groups have teamed up with the Institute for Security and Technology (IST) to form the Ransomware Task Force (RTF), which plans to present some actionable legal, technical, and policy ideas to the new Biden administration by early spring. IBM snags Nordcloud to add multi-cloud consulting expertise IBM’s acquisition of Nordcloud adds the kind of deep expertise that will drive our clients’ digital transformations as well as support the further adoption of IBM’s hybrid cloud platform. Global threat intelligence market size projected to grow to USD 16.1 billion by 2025 Major factors driving the growth of the security analytics segment are the increasing demand to discover patterns in cybersecurity attacks across network infrastructure and the growing focus on maintaining regulatory compliance across verticals. SolarWinds incident is a catalyst to rethink federal cybersecurity CIOs a...

Cybersecurity firm Sophos hit by data breach, notifies customers Leading cyber security company Sophos has notified some customers via email about a data security breach this week, saying a small subset of customers were affected. According to a report in ZDNet on Thursday, the data exposure included details such as customers’ first and last names, email addresses and phone numbers (wherever provided). NCSC Helping Man United Recover from Cyber-Attack The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is assisting Manchester United in dealing with the cyber-attack which struck the English football club last week. Last Friday, the Premier League side confirmed in a statement that an incident had taken place, following which affected systems were shut down to “contain the damage and protect data.” Surge in cyber attacks on Indian vaccine makers in Oct-Nov: Report There has been a massive surge in cyber attacks against the India vaccine makers and hospitals in the month of October and ...

Mega Mumbai power outage may be the result of a cyber attack, final report awaited A malware attack is suspected to be the reason behind Mumbai's power outage last month. The case is being probed by the state's cyber department and the final report is awaited. Canadian Centre for Cyber Security warns infrastructure at risk from cyber attacks A new report from the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security warns state-sponsored actors are likely developing the ability to launch cyberattacks against the country’s infrastructure and that hacked systems present the most pressing threat to Canadians’ physical health. India sees a 37% increase in data breaches, cyber-attacks this year The recent data breach at BigBasket, in which the details of around 2 crore users were put on sale on a forum in the dark web, follows a larger trend of cyber theft that has held strong through this year. Data breaches have shown a steady increase, and India has seen a 37 percent increase in cyberattacks in the...

1) Capcom hacked in latest cyber-attack on game-makers Video game-maker Capcom said its computer systems were hacked earlier this week, in the latest cyber-attack to hit the games industry. The Japanese firm is behind major franchises such as Resident Evil, Street Fighter, and Mega Man.   2) US hospital systems facing 'imminent' threat of cyber-attacks, FBI warns Federal agencies have warned that the US healthcare system is facing an “increased and imminent” threat of cybercrime, and that cybercriminals are unleashing a wave of extortion attempts designed to lock up hospital information systems, which could hurt patient care just as nationwide cases of Covid-19 are spiking.  3) Covid opens pharma firms to threats: Lupin reports cyber attack The threats from such digitization were flagged last year when cybersecurity solutions firm Kaspersky had reportedly ranked India as the sixth most vulnerable country where drugmakers were open to attacks from cybercriminals. 4) Explained...

  Microsoft says Russia behind most nation-state cyber-attacks Microsoft Corp. has issued 13,000 alerts about nation-state hacking attempts to its customers in the last two years, with 52% of incidents between July 2019 and June 2020 related to Russian hackers -- whose targets have ranged from elections to the Olympics, according to a report   Microsoft Takes Down a Risk to the Election and Finds the U.S. Doing the Same Fearing Russian ransomware attacks on the election, the company and U.S. Cyber Command mounted similar pre-emptive strikes. It is not clear how long they may work.     A new website predicts the likelihood of cyber-attacks between nations A new online database developed by a team of Johns Hopkins University computer scientists and international studies students predicts that there is an “extremely high likelihood” of a Russian cyberattack on Ukraine. Prolific Cybercrime Group Now Focused on Ransomware The Cybercriminal team previously associated with ...