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Linux-based botnets are being increasingly used by cybercriminals to launch distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, according to a new report released Wednesday by Kaspersky Lab.

Britain's government published proposals for new Internet spying laws Wednesday including allowing partial access to a suspect's Internet browsing history that were condemned by privacy campaigners.

Researchers at mobile security firm Lookout have come across a new malicious adware family distributed via trojanized versions of popular Android applications.The new threat, dubbed by the security company “Shuanet,” has been found in numerous Android programs, including Okta’s two-factor authentication application.

Researchers at FireEye have discovered backdoored versions of a popular ad library in thousands of iOS applications, including ones published in the Apple App Store.

The Trojan known as Tinba or Tiny Banker has been spotted in attacks aimed at online banking users in Russia, which is noteworthy because the country is not often targeted in such campaigns.

The XcodeGhost compiler malware designed to target iOS and OS X users is still active and its developers have continued to improve their creation, FireEye warned on Tuesday.

iboss Cybersecurity Raises $35 Million From Goldman Sachs’ Private Capital Group San Diego-based based iboss Cybersecurity announced on Tuesday that it has raised $35 million in a Series A funding round from investment giant Goldman Sachs.

British police said Tuesday they had arrested a fourth teenager in connection with a cyber attack on Internet and telephone provider TalkTalk that put millions of customers' data at risk.

Researchers from Google’s Project Zero have identified nearly a dozen high severity vulnerabilities in the Android operating system running on Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge smartphones.

Hackers breached the systems of anti-adblocking solutions provider PageFair and used the access to deliver malware via the publishers that rely on the company’s services.

Finland-based security solutions provider F-Secure announced this week the launch of a bug bounty program that covers several of the company’s corporate and consumer products.

BlackBerry announced on Monday that it has completed the $425 million cash acquisition of secure mobility solutions provider Good Technology.

Researchers have once again managed to bypass Microsoft’s Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET), this time by leveraging the Windows subsystem WoW64.

Exploit acquisition firm Zerodium announced on Monday that a team of hackers has completed its million-dollar iOS 9 zero-day challenge.

The recently discovered CVE-2015-7645 zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player has been already added to Angler Exploit Kit (EK) and Nuclear EK, anti-malware firm Malwarebytes reported.

Roughly one hundred websites were exposed to cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks because an XSS filter used on some of their web pages could have been easily bypassed, a researcher reported on Sunday.

US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter and his South Korean counterpart discussed Monday their concerns over a growing list of threats from North Korea, including nuclear tests and computer hacking. Carter met with Han Min-Koo in Seoul during an annual security meeting for the two allies to assess their ongoing military cooperation.

Over the years, intrusion detection systems (IDS) have fallen off the radar for most security organizations. They seem about as relevant to today as pagers. This view is largely tied to the perception that IDS has been subsumed by intrusion prevention systems (IPS), which in turn has been subsumed by next-generation firewalls and UTMs.