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The United States Department of Justice this week unsealed an indictment that charges 80 defendants, most of them Nigerians, for their roles in a...

Vietnam emerges as the country affected the most by Microsoft SQL Server attacks that leverage malicious jobs, a new report from Kaspersky reveals.

Vulnerabilities that Cisco Talos security researchers have discovered in various Aspose APIs could allow a remote attacker to execute code on affected machines.

The cybercriminals behind the recent ransomware incident that impacted over 20 local governments in Texas are apparently demanding $2.5 million in exchange for access...

The Linux Foundation this week announced an industry-wide effort aimed at accelerating the adoption of confidential computing.

A Russian-speaking threat group has managed to steal roughly $3.5 million since September 2018 by increasing the frequency of attacks, Singapore-based cybersecurity firm Group-IB...

Visa this week announced a new set of capabilities aimed at improving fraud prevention and cybersecurity of payment systems.The new payment security services are...

A Ruby software package that contained a malicious backdoor has been removed from the Ruby Gems repository after compromising over ten libraries.Called rest-client, the...

All Sphinx servers that are exposed to the Internet are prone to abuse by cybercriminals, as they can be accessed by anyone, CERT-Bund warns.

Launching denial-of-service (DoS) attacks against Tor’s most commonly used default bridges and flooding them would cost attackers around $17,000 per month, researchers have discovered. 

Facebook has announced the 2019 winners of the Internet Defense Prize, an award offered in partnership with USENIX.

A recently analyzed Chinese cyber-espionage and financially-focused threat actor was observed targeting a web server at a U.S.-based research university, FireEye’s security researchers report.

VideoLAN this week released a software update to its highly popular VLC media player to address a dozen vulnerabilities, the most important of which...

A new ransomware family specifically targeting users of the Fortnite game is based on the open source Hidden-Cry malware, Cyren’s security researchers have discovered.

A ransomware attack hit 23 local government entities in Texas last week, the Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) has revealed.

More than 750,000 systems remain vulnerable to the BlueKeep vulnerability as patching rate has decreased by around 85%, a new report from security firm...

Security researchers from Zscaler have found a new remote access Trojan (RAT) for sale on the Dark Web that includes multiple functions and is able to...

A security vulnerability discovered and patched 10 years ago has remained unaddressed in various Avaya phones until recently, McAfee security researchers have discovered. 

Researchers from security firm IOActive have discovered a series of vulnerabilities and attacks that they believe could be possible on Boeing's 787 Dreamliner.

A vulnerability addressed this week in the Kubernetes container orchestration system could allow users to read, modify or delete cluster-wide custom resources.