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Peteris Sahurovs, a 28-year-old Latvian national suspected of being part of a group that caused losses of millions of dollars through a scareware scheme, has been extradited to the United States.The suspect, who made his first court appearance in Minneapolis on Monday, has been charged with wire fraud, computer fraud and conspiracy.

Today’s growing attack surface is dominated by non-traditional endpoints.

When it comes to improving cyber incident response, security teams can learn a valuable lesson from the military about the importance of standard operating procedures.

The cybersecurity industry is at an interesting point in its evolution. Business is booming (Gartner expects global information spending to hit $113 billion by 2020), and the cybersecurity technology ecosystem is thriving for both large, established vendors with extensive resources and nimble, innovative startups.

Israeli government spies hacked into the operations of Islamic State bombmakers to discover they were developing a laptop computer bomb to blow up a commercial aircraft, the New York Times reported Monday.

Cloud-based security and compliance solutions provider Qualys on Monday announced a new product designed for securing containers across cloud and on-premises deployments.

A newly discovered ransomware family targeting Mac users is using the Ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) distribution model and uses code copied from previous MacOS ransomware, Fortinet researchers warn.

A new banking trojan, initially called 'Matrix Banker', has been spotted currently targeting Latin America -- or more specifically, Mexico and Peru. It seems to be still under development, and for now the jury is out over whether it will become a long-term threat.

GameStop Admits Hackers Had Access to Its Website for Six MonthsVideo game and electronics retailer GameStop has started warning customers that their personal details and payment card data may have been stolen by cybercriminals.

A recently patched Samba flaw known as EternalRed and SambaCry has been exploited in the wild to deliver a cryptocurrency miner to vulnerable machines, researchers warned.

Thousands of IP cameras have been hijacked by Internet of Things (IoT) botnets and data from Trend Micro shows that the recently launched Persirai malware is responsible for a large percentage of infections.

An analysis of 35,000 companies from more than 20 industries across the world showed that many of them are at risk of suffering a data breach due to their failure to ensure that the software running on their computers is up to date.

If you attended RSA Conference this year, you probably heard many vendors talk about machine learning for cybersecurity.

Earlier this week, a researcher analyzed a newly detected technique for delivering malware involving PowerPoint files and mouseover events. Today, Trend Micro has published details on a spam campaign it detected in late May using the same technique.

Cisco informed customers this week that its Prime Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) is affected by two critical vulnerabilities that can be exploited for remote code execution and to access the product’s administrative console.

Updates released by VMware this week for its Horizon View Client and vSphere Data Protection (VDP) products address a total of three critical and important vulnerabilities.

Qatar-based broadcaster Al-Jazeera said Thursday that it was under a widescale cyber attack which had targeted "all systems", according to a statement released on social media by the broadcaster."Al Jazeera Media Network under cyber attack on all systems, websites & social media platforms," it said on Twitter. 

Researchers at Russian antivirus firm Dr. Web have come across a couple of new Linux Trojans, including one that abuses Raspberry Pi computers for cryptocurrency mining.

Having been in the field of Information Technology for 30+ years, I continue to find it interesting that what looks like new technology is very seldom completely new, or in a lot of cases, even new at all. We’ve recently been looking at IoT, and how it’s similar to Industrial Controls and related technologies.