A new Android banking trojan has been found, targeting international banks from the United Kingdom and Italy (including in the U.S.). and five different cryptocurrency services. Twenty-two instances have been discovered, but more are expected.
GBG to Acquire Acuant in $736 Million Deal
UK-based identity verification and fraud prevention solutions provider GBG on Thursday announced that it has agreed to acquire Acuant in a $736 million deal.
Supply Chain Security Fears Escalate as Iranian APTs Caught Hitting IT Services Sector
Fears of software supply chain attacks escalated again this week with a new warning from Microsoft that it has caught Iranian threat actors breaking into IT services shops in India and Israel and using that access to hit the real targets.
Cloud Data Protection Startup Laminar Closes $32M Funding Round
Public cloud data protection provider Laminar on Wednesday emerged from stealth with $32 million in Series A funding. To date, the startup has raised $37 million in venture capital investments.
The new investment round was led by Insight Partners. Meron Capital, SentinelOne, and TLV Partners also participated.
Chrome 96 Plugs High-Risk Browser Flaws
Google this week announced the availability of Chrome 96 in the stable channel with fixes for 25 security flaws, including 18 bugs reported by external security researchers.
Mandiant Attributes Ghostwriter APT Attacks to Belarus
The Belarusian government is at least partially responsible for the Ghostwriter disinformation campaign, according to security researchers at the Mandiant Threat Intelligence team.
Blacksmith: Rowhammer Fuzzer Bypasses Existing Protections
A group of security researchers devised a new attack that completely bypasses the existing mitigations against the Rowhammer vulnerability in dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chips.