Uncategorized

Payhawk raises $20M to unify corporate cards, payments and expenses (TechCrunxh)

Romain Dillet Fintech startup Payhawk has raised a $20 million funding round. QED Investors is leading the round with existing investor Earlybird Digital East also participating. Payhawk...

US Army picks 5 innovators to help increase its howitzer firing rate (Defense News)

Jen Judson The U.S. Army has picked five small business innovators to build prototypes intended to help increase the rate of fire of self-propelled howitzers as well...

How will the DoD’s next multibillion-dollar IT contract fare after messy JEDI deal? (Defense News)

Andrew Eversden Consider these two quotes about two contracts the Department of Defense says are key to modernizing networks and advancing its computing power: “The war...

Biden selects first woman four-star admiral for the Coast Guard (Defense News)

Aaron Mehta President Joe Biden has nominated Coast Guard Vice Adm. Linda Fagan to the role of vice commandant, making her the first woman to...

Experts demonstrated how to hack a utility and take over a smart meter (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini Researchers from the FireEye’s Mandiant team have breached the network of a North American utility and turn off one of its smart meters. https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/117001/ics-scada/ot-network-hack-smart-meters.html

Crooks made more than $560K with a simple clipboard hijacker (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini Avast researchers analyzed the activity of a simple cryptocurrency malware dubbed HackBoss that allowed its operators to earn over $560K. https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/116995/cyber-crime/hackboss-clipboard-hijacker.html

XCSSET malware now targets macOS 11 and M1-based Macs (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini XCSSET, a Mac malware targeting Xcode developers, was now re-engineered and employed in a campaign aimed at Apple’s new M1 chips. https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/116983/malware/xcsset-malware-apple-m1.html

Nitroransomware demands gift codes as ransom payments (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini A new ransomware dubbed ‘NitroRansomware’ has appeared in the threat landscape, it demands a Discord Nitro gift code to decrypt files. https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/116975/malware/nitroransomware-discord-gift-code.html

Codecov was a victim of a supply chain attack (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini The software company Codecov suffered a security breach, threat actors compromised the supply chain of one of its tools. https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/116967/hacking/codecov-supply-chain-attack.html

Latest articles