The infamous botnet Emotet is back after a five-month break with a new Microsoft Office phishing campaign. The return of Emotet was first spotted by Malwarebytes Labs July 13 and the campaign took off by July 17. Emotet first emerged in 2014, and though primarily known as a botnet, the Emotet name is also applied ...

Further details came to light today concerning the hack of Twitter Inc. Wednesday in which scammers tweeted bitcoin scam messages across a large number of high-profile accounts — including a possible suspect behind the attack. The path to the hack is still somewhat subject to conjecture, but one thing is clear: A Twitter employee was involved, ...

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency today issued an emergency directive ordering civil federal government agencies using Windows Server to patch a critical security vulnerability revealed by Microsoft Corp. earlier this week. The vulnerability, dubbed “SIGRed,” resides in Windows DNS and can be exploited to allow an attacker to take ...

The U.S., U.K. and Canada today issued a joint advisory warning that a hacking group linked to Russian intelligence services is targeting COVID-19 related research. The advisory was written by the U.K. National Cyber Security Center and Canada’s Communications Security Establishment with support from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency. It points the ...

Cloud cybersecurity firm Barracuda Networks Inc. today launched a new software-defined wide-area network service for Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud. Called Barracuda CloudGen WAN, the service is pitched as the first SD-WAN solution that runs inside Azure Virtual WAN Hubs. A virtual hub on Azure is a Microsoft-managed virtual network that enables connectivity from other networks with virtual VNet ...

Cloud backup software company Datto Inc. has confidentially filed for an initial public offering with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, according to a report today from Bloomberg. Acquired by Vista Equity Partners in 2017, the company is said to be considering whether to go public later this year or in 2021. The purchase price of Datto was ...

A data breach involving the theft of customer records from MGM Resorts International last year may have been much larger than initially thought, with some 142 million allegedly hacked MGM customer records found for sale on the shady part of the internet known as the dark web. The data breach was discovered in February when some ...

The second Tuesday of each month is best known among security professionals as Patch Tuesday, the day Microsoft Corp. releases patches for security vulnerabilities across its products. This time it’s a party, as SAP SE, Adobe Systems Inc. and Google LLC all addressed security issues today as well. Microsoft led the pack with 124 patches ...

Following in the footsteps of allies that include the U.S., Australia, New Zealand and Japan, the U.K. has announced that it will ban the use of equipment from Huawei Electronics Co. Ltd. across the country’s 5G network. The ban means the purchase of all Huawei 5G equipment will be prohibited in the U.K. as of ...

2020 has been an unprecedented year thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, with radical changes in the way tech companies do business coupled with economic disruption that arguably is unrivaled since the Great Depression — and venture capital hasn’t been completely spared either. The VC industry was disrupted in the second quarter as predicted, but the ...