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Microsoft-owned GitHub announced on Wednesday that it has acquired code analysis platform provider Semmle and the company is now a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) Numbering Authority.

Philippines immigration agents, backed by troops, have arrested more than 300 Chinese for alleged cyber crimes, a week after a similar number were detained during a raid linked to investment fraud.The Bureau of Immigration late Tuesday said 324 Chinese nationals were arrested in Puerto Princesa City on Palawan island during Monday's operation.

Following a 4-month vacation, Emotet’s operators are back at it, borrowing a recently introduced spear-phishing technique to deliver their malware: hijacking legitimate email conversations.

In my previous column I introduced the concept of “Think 360, Demand 360” as it applies to data protection, privacy, and cyber security.

Facebook this week announced that it removed multiple pages, groups, and accounts engaged in misleading behavior on the social platform.

Several critical remote code execution vulnerabilities have been found by Cisco Talos researchers in a PDF file processing product from Aspose.

A previously undocumented attack group, given the name the Tortoiseshell Group, is targeting middle eastern IT firms in an apparent supply chain move against their customers. Researchers at Symantec have discovered 11 IT firms, mostly in Saudi Arabia, that have been hit by the group.

A new threat actor has generated thousands of dollars in the Monero cryptocurrency using remote access tools (RATs) and illicit cryptocurrency mining malware.

The US Justice Department on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against Edward Snowden seeking to prevent the former CIA employee and National Security Agency contractor from profiting from his new book.

Researchers at vpnMentor have discovered an unprotected database apparently storing information on nearly everyone in Ecuador, including children and deceased individuals.

Bochum, Germany-based VMRay has closed a $10 million Series B funding round led by Digital+ Partners, bringing the total raised to date to just under $14 million. The money will be used in both marketing and R&D. R&D is based in Germany, while all customer-facing operations are run from Boston, Mass.

A recently discovered cryptocurrency mining malware targeting Linux machines is employing kernel-mode rootkits in an attempt to make detection more difficult, Trend Micro reveals.

A vulnerability in the AMD ATI Radeon ATIDXX64.DLL driver could be triggered from within a VMware guest to execute code on the host, Cisco Talos warns.

Oracle this week expanded its portfolio with three new services designed to help automatically protect cloud workloads and data.