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Security researchers have uncovered a new variant of the infamous Mirai Internet of Things botnet , this time targeting embedded devices ...

Various cyber criminal groups and individual hackers are still exploiting a recently patched critical code execution  vulnerability in Wi...

Security researchers have finally, with "high confidence," linked a previously discovered global cyber espionage campaign target...

Cybersecurity researcher at Google's Project Zero division has publicly disclosed details and proof-of-concept exploit of a high-seve...

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a way to hide malicious code in Intel SGX enclaves, a hardware-based memory encryption feature ...

A security researcher has discovered yet another cryptocurrency-stealing malware on the official Google Play Store that was designed to s...

Just because an app is available on Google Play Store doesn't mean that it is a legitimate app. Despite so many efforts by Google, so...

Mac users need to beware of a newly discovered piece of malware that steals their web browser cookies and credentials in an attempt to wit...

The United States Department of Justice (DoJ) announced Wednesday its effort to "map and further disrupt" a botnet tied to Nort...

Security researchers have discovered two separate malware campaigns, one of which is distributing the Ursnif data-stealing trojan and th...

Since most security tools also keep an eye on the network traffic to detect malicious IP addresses, attackers are increasingly adopting in...

Ukrainian Police have this week busted out two separate groups of hackers involved in carrying out DDoS attacks against news agencies and...

Security researchers have discovered yet another example of how cybercriminals disguise their malware activities as regular traffic by us...

Shamoon is back… one of the most destructive malware families that caused damage to Saudi Arabia's largest oil producer in 2012 and th...

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player that hackers are actively exploiting in the wil...

A new piece of ransomware is spreading rapidly across China that has already infected more than 100,000 computers in the last four days as...

The Department of Justice announced Wednesday charges against two Iranian nationals for their involvement in creating and deploying the n...

A widely used third-party NodeJS module with nearly 2 million downloads a week was compromised after one of its open-source contributor g...

This is why you should always think twice before opening innocent looking email attachments, especially word and pdf files. Cybersecurit...