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An updated version of the Cerber ransomware family is making the rounds, using a new file extension and rendering previous decryption tools useless.

SAP’s Monthly Patches Dominated by Hot News and High Priority Flaws

A newly discovered PoS (Point-of-Sale) malware can bypass computer defenses such as User Account Control (UAC) by posing as a legitimate Microsoft application, Doctor...

The Zeus Trojan variant known as Panda Banker has zone in on targets in Brazil, where it focuses on 10 local banks and various...

Adobe’s Flash Player might be the most targeted product when criminal exploit kits are involved, but Microsoft products such as Office, Windows and Internet...

A threat actor using Iranian-language tools, Iranian hosting companies, operating from the Iranian IP space at times was observed targeting the Syrian opposition in...

Just two weeks after Chrome 52 was released in the stable channel, Google has issued an update to resolve 10 security vulnerabilities, 7 of...

Malware operators can hide the use of malicious macros to distribute malware by simply renaming the offending Office documents, Cisco researchers reveal.

Black Hat USA 2016 – Imperva today revealed details on four high-profile attack vectors affecting HTTP/2, the new version of the HTTP protocol.

An issue affecting Microsoft’s Windows operating system could result in leaked user credentials if Internet Explorer and Edge are being used, researchers discovered.

As a new feature to its Google Account service, Google said it would now alert users via their smartphone or tablet when new devices...

Mozilla on Monday announced that download protection in Firefox 48 has ben expanded to include potentially unwanted software and uncommon downloads.

Google on Monday announced new security patches for the Android operating system, focusing mainly on resolving a series of critical bugs in drivers, some...

A newly spotted Android Trojan managed to infect over 150 applications in Google Play, for a total of more than 2.8 million downloads, Doctor...

A long-running exploit kit (EK) campaign has recently switched to distributing the Locky ransomware via the Neutrino EK, Palo Alto Networks researchers reveal.

Microsoft recently disabled the cloud sync feature in SwiftKey after an issue resulted in user details being displayed to other people.

Starting in Windows 10 version 1607, new kernel mode drivers will not be loaded unless they have been signed by Microsoft, the company announced.

The XTunnel malware that was used by Russian APT threat actor Fancy Bear to penetrate the Democrat National Committee (DNC) network was specifically designed...

In an attempt to improved the security of Android, Google is looking into integrating the latest Linux kernel defenses into the next version of...

A malicious Android application that was posing as a development tool was stealing users’ media files for over a year, researchers at Symantec warn.