Lockbit is by far this summer’s most prolific ransomware group, trailed by two offshoots of the Conti group. After a recent dip, ransomware attacks are back on the rise. According to data released by ...

Users of GnuPG, OpenSSL and Git could be in danger from an attack that’s practical for ordinary attackers to carry out. A proof-of-concept attack has been pioneered that “fully and practically” breaks ...

Twitter is blasted for security and privacy lapses by the company’s former head of security who alleges the social media giant’s actions amount to a national security risk. A recently surfaced 84-page ...

The APT group was spotted sending spear-phishing emails that purport to detail information about coronavirus – but they actually infect victims with a custom RAT. An advanced persistent threat (APT) ...

The first half of 2021 saw 1.5 billion attacks on smart devices, with attackers looking to steal data, mine cryptocurrency or build botnets. The first six months of 2021 have seen a more than ...

From more widescale, powerful distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, to privacy issues in children’s connected toys, here are the top IoT disasters in 2019.

Over 130 companies tangled in sprawling phishing campaign that spoofed a multi-factor authentication system. Targeted attacks on Twilio and Cloudflare employees are tied to a massive phishing campaign ...

Attacks against U.S. companies spike in Q1 2022 with patchable and preventable external vulnerabilities responsible for bulk of attacks. Eighty-two percent of attacks on organizations in Q1 2022 were ...

More than 380,000 of the 450,000-plus servers hosting the open-source container-orchestration engine for managing cloud deployments allow some form of access. More than 380,000 Kubernetes API servers ...

‘Summer Camp’ for hackers features a compromised satellite, a homecoming for hackers and cyberwarfare warnings. There was nothing typical this year at BSides LV, Black Hat USA and DEF CON – also known ...

Notorious North Korean APT impersonates Airbus, General Motors and Rheinmetall to lure potential victims into downloading malware. The notorious Lazarus advanced persistent threat (APT) group has been ...

WeTransfer is being used by hackers to circumvent email gateways looking to zap malicious links. Hackers are abusing the popular file-sharing service called WeTransfer to circumvent defensive email ...