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Enigma Software, supplier of software known as SpyHunter, has a notice on its website: "Malwarebytes Inc., the maker of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware ("MBAM") and AdwCleaner, is intentionally blocking SpyHunter and RegHunter for what we believe are competitive reasons... We have taken legal action against Malwarebytes and are seeking remedies for this unfair conduct."

Several popular antivirus products are affected by a type of vulnerability that allows an attacker to escalate privileges on a compromised system by abusing the quarantine feature, a researcher warned on Friday.

As a former CISO and as head of an analyst team at a threat intelligence vendor, I’ve written a lot about cyber threat intelligence - what it is/should be, the different types of threat intel (strategic, operational, tactical), raw intelligence versus finished intel, how it can be used, how threat intel fits into your overall cybersecurity program, and so on.

New Strategies Must be Put Into Action to Deal With the Imbalance of Cybersecurity Resources

A study conducted by Google over a one-year period showed that online accounts are most likely to become compromised as a result of phishing attacks.

Hackers hack hackers. There's no surprise there. Big fish eat little fish. In the past, money mule recruiters have been known to use their recruitment adverts as a lure to get targets to visit a malicious site; while more recently it is suggested that cyberspies hack cyberspies.

Quantum Dawn IV, a large-scale exercise  to test the cyber resiliency of the U.S. finance sector, was held on Tuesday and Wednesday this week. The excercise had more than 900 participants from over 50 financial institutions, government agencies and regulators.

Schneider Electric has released updates for its InduSoft Web Studio and InTouch Machine Edition products to address a critical vulnerability that can be exploited for remote code execution.

Argus Cyber Security, a Tel Aviv, Israel-based startup focused on automotive cyber security, has been acquired by Continental subsidiary Elektrobit (EB), which provides embedded software solu

Researchers at Trend Micro have spotted the first known piece of malware to exploit a recently patched vulnerability affecting the Toast feature in Android.

Equifax on Thursday said that during the third quarter of 2017, it incurred $87.5 million in expenses related to the massive hack that was disclosed on September 7, 2017. 

WikiLeaks has resumed its CIA leaks and it has now started publishing source code and other files associated with tools allegedly developed by the intelligence agency.

One effect of the improving ability of security defenses to detect malicious files has been the adversaries' switch from malware to social engineering and fileless attacks. It is an example of 'human reasoning', the ability to change tactics to defeat new defenses.

A security advisory published by Microsoft on Wednesday provides information on how users can protect themselves against recent attacks abusing the Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) protocol.

As I’ve written before, sophisticated adversaries are finding vulnerabilities wherever they can, and often that means looking to an organization’s supply chain for weaknesses in defenses. They’ll use an organization’s partner or supplier as a ‘stepping stone’ to gain access to their ultimate target.