The underground cybercrime marketplaces continue to get data-rich with three large VPN database dumps, adding 21 million records to it. Meanwhile, Microsoft open-sourced a source code analysis tool to detect malware implants akin to the ones used in the SolarWinds hack. In other news, the DHS announced an increase in cybersecurity expenditure from the FEMA grants received by state and local governments. Continue reading for the top headlines in the cybersecurity space for the day.
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A dark web user was found selling 21 million user records containing user credentials and device data of three Android VPN services, namely SuperVPN, GeckoVPN, and ChatVPN.
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Microsoft released SolarWinds CodeQL queries for developers to scan their source code and spot any malicious implants on the SolarWinds Orion network management platform.
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Clop ransomware actors claim to have stolen the data of Steris Corporation, a medical equipment company and also a client of Accellion.
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The Division of Structural Biology lab at Oxford University, which has been working on the COVID-19 virus and examining vaccine candidates, suffered a security breach.
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Energy firm Npower close down its mobile app following a cyberattack that compromised the personal information of its customers.
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Kaspersky established links between a new ongoing espionage campaign aimed at defense contractors across 12 countries and the North Korean Lazarus group.
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Security experts discovered a steep rise in the popularity of Golang language among nation-state hacking groups with a 2,000% growth in the past few years.
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ENISA published a study around cloud security practices for the healthcare sector to help institutions manage cloud security and implement the right security and data protection measures.
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The DHS announced that state and local governments would now be required to spend at least 7.5% of their FEMA grants on cybersecurity, resulting in an overall $25 million push to their collective cybersecurity efforts.
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Armorblox, an AI-based email security startup, today announced that it raised $30 million in its Series B funding round led by Next47.
