Researchers at the University of Waterloo's Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute (CPI) will receive over $1.5 million in funding from the National Cybersecurity Consortium (NCC) to advance digital security in Canada.

The student-led program "CodeHoppers," sponsored by Augusta University's (AU) School of Computer and Cyber Sciences, is returning.

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According to security researchers at Veracode, security debt, flaws that remain unfixed for longer than a year, exists in 76% of organizations in the financial services sector, with 50% of organizations carrying critical security debt.

LottieFiles has recently confirmed that its Lottie-Player software has been compromised in a supply chain attack aimed at stealing cryptocurrency from victims. LottieFiles’ Lottie-Player is widely used for embedding and playing Lottie animati

The Dstat.cc DDoS review platform has recently been seized by law enforcement, and two suspects have been arrested after the service helped fuel distributed denial-of-service attacks for years.

The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security recently announced that at least 20 Canadian government networks have been compromised by Chinese state-sponsored threat actors, who have maintained access over the past four years to steal valuable data.

New research shows that the "FakeCall" Android banking trojan, also known as "Fakecalls," has grown more sophisticated in evasion and espionage.

Cisco Talos researchers have observed threat actors using copyright infringement claims to trick targets and deploy infostealers.

Colorado state election officials recently announced that voting system passwords were mistakenly put on the Colorado Secretary of State's website for several months before being spotted and taken down.

Microsoft warns that Chinese threat actors are using the "Quad7" botnet, built with hacked Small Office/Home Office (SOHO) routers, to steal credentials in password-spray attacks.

Sophos has detailed a years-long battle with Chinese government-backed hacking teams and admitted to using its own custom implants to track the hackers' tools, movements, and tactics.