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Researchers at Seculert have conducted an extensive analysis of the Ursnif banking Trojan and, in addition to finding a few improvements, they identified some mistakes made by the threat’s developers.

Marcel Lehel Lazar, the 44-year-old Romanian national known online as the hacker “Guccifer,” has been sentenced by a U.S. court to 52 months in prison for aggravated identity theft and unauthorized access to a protected computer.

Mainland Chinese hackers have attacked two Hong Kong government departments, a US-based security firm said Friday, as the city prepares for a crucial election.

Smartphone malware infections increased by 96% over the year to April 2016; smartphones account for 78% of all mobile infections; and the number of infected mobile devices peaked at 1.06% in April. These details come from the latest Nokia Threat Intelligence Report (PDF) for the first half of 2016, and demonstrate a rapidly increasing malware threat to mobile devices.

The account details of well over 43 million Last.fm users were stolen when the online music service was hacked back in 2012.

Betabot, a piece of malware that has been around for years, recently started to deliver ransomware to compromised computers, Invincea reveals.

The 2016 Rio Olympics weren’t all about the games, but also about overcoming some of the largest distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, Arbor Networks researchers reveal.

Cisco informed customers on Wednesday that it has released software and firmware updates for some of its products in an effort to address several vulnerabilities rated as having critical, high and medium severity.

There is simply no denying that the adoption of open source components in software development is pervasive and will continue to expand. Black Duck, an open source security firm, noted in their “State of Open Source Security in Commercial Applications, 2016” report that 67 percent of the applications tested had some form of open source component.

The developers of the RIG exploit kit appear to be testing new infection methods and a different type of URL pattern for command and control (C&C) communications that could help the threat evade detection.

Researchers from the University of Michigan have analyzed the MedSec report describing serious vulnerabilities in St. Jude Medical products and determined that the security firm may have reached inaccurate conclusions.

Malicious Microsoft Office documents have long been used to deliver malware onto the computers of unsuspecting users, but it appears that attackers are now abusing them in a new manner: to install rogue proxies.

After launching an investigation in July after unauthorized charges were identified on payment cards u

In a private letter to its members on Tuesday, SWIFT has disclosed that additional cyber attacks have surfaced since its last update in June.

A new piece of malware called FairWare is targeting Linux servers and deleting web folders, while "offering" to restore access to encrypted files for a ransom of 2 Bitcoins (about $1,100).

Adobe announced on Tuesday the availability of security hotfixes for versions 10 and 11 of ColdFusion, the company’s web and mobile application development platform.

Nearly one million devices have been infected with a piece of malware and abused for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, according to an analysis conducted by Level 3 Communications and Flashpoint.

Identity management firm OneLogin informed customers on Tuesday that some of the information they stored on the company’s servers may have been accessed by hackers.

The email addresses and passwords pertaining to a total of 68,648,009 Dropbox accounts have been compromised following a data breach in 2012.

As the Greek philosopher Heraclitus famously noted, “the only constant is change”. This statement was as accurate 2,500 years ago as it is now. The world around us changes constantly, often times at a somewhat frenetic pace. The field of information security is no different. Both the organizations we support and the threat landscape we face are changing and evolving constantly.