BlackBerry plans to acquire cybersecurity firm Cylance for $1.4 billion.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/16/blackberry-to-buy-cybersecurity-firm-cylance.html
Hackers linked to Russia are impersonating employees of the U.S. State Department in an effort to infect the networks of American government agencies.
Instagram patched a bug in its website that could allow an attacker to view the passwords of some of its users in plain text.
https://thehackernews.com/2018/11/instagram-password-hack.html
A new variant of the Olympic Destroyer malware is out in the wild, being delivered via malicious email attachments.
https://threatpost.com/olympic-destroyer-wiper-changes-up-infection-routine/139230/
APT29, otherwise known as the Russian threat group “Cozy Bear” is likely behind a massive string of spear-phishing emails over the past few weeks.
A new campaign distributing the Zebrocy trojan has attacked several countries recently using specially crafted templates containing malicious macros.