Medical device cybersecurity provider MedCrypt has landed $25 million in a Series B funding round, bringing total investment to $34 million, in a bid to better protect healthcare providers from medical device-targeted cyberattacks, according to SiliconAngle.
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ConnectWise has patched a critical flaw impacting the ConnectWise Recover and R1Soft Server Backup Manager secure backup solutions, which could be exploited to facilitate remote code execution or unauthorized data access, according to BleepingComputer.
ThreatFabric researchers discovered that 231 banking and cryptocurrency wallet apps from U.S., Australian, French, Dutch, Spanish, German, Polish, Italian, Austrian, and U.K. financial entities are being targeted by five malicious dropper Android apps that have been downloaded more than 130,000 times in the Google Play Store, reports The Hacker News.
A recently released cybersecurity benchmarking report from the Medical Device Innovation Consortium aims to support manufacturers in taking more proactive cybersecurity measures.
North Korean state-sponsored threat operation Kimsuky also known as Thallium, Velvet Chollima, and Black Banshee has been using the FastFire, FastSpy, and FastViewer Android malware strains in attacks against South Korean individuals, according to The Hacker News.
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