Kevin Townsend

Magecart is a prolific stealer of bank card details. It is neither a malware type nor an attacker group -- it is more like...

Android users are frequently advised to limit app downloads to those from their corporate app store, or from Google's official Google Play store. Despite...

The UK government has published a consultation document on the proposed regulation of consumer IoT devices. The consultation is not designed to see whether...

Fortune 500 Fiserv Sued by Local Credit Union Over Security Vulnerabilities in Online Banking Platform

Denver, Co-based managed detection and response (MDR) firm Red Canary has raised $34 million in growth equity funding. 

The UK supermarket chain Morrisons' legal battle with 5,500 of its own employees over vicarious liability introduces a new threat element to the already...

The 2018 Internet Crime Report (ICR) shows that both the incidence and cost of internet crime continues to escalate. Complaints rose 14.3% from 2017...

Brazilian hackers have developed a drive-by download attack leveraging the inherent trust in the Google name. A banking trojan known as LoadPCBanker is deployed...

A recent survey from the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC, part of GCHQ), conducted by Ipsos Mori, suggests that 52% consider their most...

Dallas, Texas-based firm EmCare Inc disclosed on Saturday that a number of employees' email accounts had been accessed, potentially exposing personal information of almost...

Facebook has admitted to uploading the email contacts of up to 1.5 million users over a period of three years without gaining either the...

With growing concern over DNS manipulation attacks, details on a new elite state-sponsored DNS hijacking campaign have been released. Called operation Sea Turtle, researchers...

Bad bots are a continuing problem. Good bots, those that perform welcome and benign activities -- such as search engine crawlers like Googlebot and...

Sunnyvale, CA-based Fortinet agreed a deal worth $545,000 to settle a whistleblower lawsuit brought by the U.S. government and Yuxin 'Jay' Fang. The lawsuit...

Brazil does not have a highly organized hacker underground in the same way as Russia and eastern Europe. Most of the malicious activity by...

Starting in early 2019, Ukrainian government entities have been targeted by a spear-phishing campaign that appears to be a cyber espionage campaign emanating from...

Garfield County, Utah, was recently affected by ransomware. Local government is an increasingly attractive target for criminals because of its high dependence on information...

A new type of DDoS attack that abuses the HTML5 Ping-based hyperlink auditing feature has been detected following a major attack emanating from primarily...

Two of the most powerful Ministers in the UK government, the secretary of state for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) and the secretary...