Researchers at cybersecurity solutions firm F-Secure Corp. today revealed they have discovered a range of security vulnerabilities that affect more than 150 multifunction printers from HP Inc. The researchers, Timo Hirvonen and Alexander Bolshev, started with testing one printer from HP to see if it was vulnerable to hacking. It was, and using those initial findings, ...

Japanese conglomerate Panasonic Corp. has been hit by a data breach that remained undetected for nearly five months. The company described the data breach in a Nov. 26 alert as unauthorized access to a file server that included some data on the server being accessed during the intrusion. The compromised server was detected on Nov. ...

Furniture giant Inter IKEA Systems B.V. has been targeted by an ongoing attack that uses internal emails to distribute malicious links and attachments. The company warned employees of the attack on Friday, noting that the cyberattack is also affecting other IKEA organizations, suppliers and business partners. Phishing attacks targeting employees at companies are not that ...

McAfee Enterprise and FireEye today announced the availability of new cloud security capabilities on Amazon Web Services Inc. and integration with Amazon Inspector, an automated security inspection service. The new capabilities bring FireEye Helix behavior analysis and machine-learning extended detection response capabilities combined with Amazon Inspector to AWS customers. The features are designed to provide ...

A coalition of European Union companies and groups led by Nextcloud GmbH has filed a complaint with the European Commission over Microsoft Corp. bundling services, including OneDrive, with Windows 10 and 11. The “Coalition for a Level Playing Field” claims that Microsoft is engaging in anticompetitive behavior in bundling services with Windows. “Microsoft is integrating ...

Israel has cut the number of countries to which local companies that can export cybersecurity tools in the wake of the U.S. Department of Commerce sanctioning spyware maker NSO Group Technologies Ltd. earlier this month. The number of countries has been slashed from 102 to 37, with the remaining eligible countries primarily being in Europe ...

Customer relationship management platform startup Attio Ltd. said today it has raised $7.7 million in funding to beef up its engineering and product development ranks in preparation for a full public launch in early 2022. Point Nine Capital led the seed round. Also participating in the round were Balderton Capital, Headline, Passion Capital and a number of ...

Coinbase Inc. has acquired cryptocurrency wallet startup Breadwinner AG, better known as BRD, for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2015, the company’s cryptocurrency wallet, previously known as Breadwallet and Bread, is a mobile-first wallet with more than 10 million customers and $20 billion in assets under protection. Along with the wallet, the company also supports ...

A previously unknown hacking group is claimed to be actively targeting biomanufacturing facilities in the U.S. using a new form of malware dubbed “Tardigrade.” The claim was made this week by the Bioeconomy ​​Information Sharing and Analysis Center. The first alleged attack using Tardigrade is said to have occurred in spring 2021, with a second attack in ...

Apple Inc. today filed a lawsuit against Israeli firm NSO Group Technologies Ltd. over the NSO’s use of its Pegasus spyware. NSO is infamous when it comes to spyware. The company is legitimate and its services, including Pegasus, are deployed by various governments to spy on people. Those people have in the past included journalists, human ...