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Hundreds of thousands of users have had their Web browsers hijacked by a piece of malware distributed through Facebook, a researcher reported.

Adobe Systems plans to release a patch this week for a zero-day vulnerability caught being exploited in malvertising attacks.

Researchers at Trend Micro have identified a new variant of the financial malware known as Dyre (Dyreza). The threat now targets a larger number of banks and uses some noteworthy propagation and evasion techniques.

A new report from FireEye details the activities of a threat actor whose mission has been to gather valuable information on individuals and organizations opposing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

The United States Army Research Laboratory (ARL) has released the source code for Dshell, a framework that can be used to analyze cyberattacks.ARL, which is part of the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command, has been using the tool for close to five years when reviewing incidents on the Department of Defense’s networks.

Researchers who identify vulnerabilities in mobile applications officially developed by Google will be rewarded for their effort, the search giant announced last week.

Malicious actors have managed to compromise servers powering HipChat, the business-focused group chat and instant message (IM) service.

Paris - After having used the Internet profusely for propaganda and recruitment, jihadist organizations have realized that investigators are gleaning crucial information online and are increasingly concealing their web presence, experts say.

The recently launched Microsoft Outlook for iOS can be a “security nightmare” for companies, a researcher warned on Thursday.

Threat information-sharing is a phrase that gets thrown often, but there isn't much agreement on how organizations should be working together or the methods they should be using.

If there were any lingering doubts that cybersecurity is a geopolitical issue with global implications, such opinions were cast on the rocks by discussions this past week at the 2015 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

This past weekend, my wife and I took in a Saturday matinée to see the film adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice.

Singapore - A Singaporean man who called himself "The Messiah" was sentenced to nearly five years in jail Friday for hacking into several servers, including the website of a district represented by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.

The large number of recent incidents involving malicious or potentially unwanted applications (PUAs) signed with digital certificates should make users and system administrators aware of the fact that digital signatures must not be blindly trusted, Kaspersky has warned.

New Malware Downloads Cryptocurrency Miner to Infected DevicesResearchers at Websense have come across a new piece of malware that leverages legitimate websites and services in an effort to disguise its malicious activities.

The Russia-based dating website Topface has completed its investigation into the theft of 20 million customer email addresses reported last week.

Git repository hosting service GitHub has doubled the maximum amount of money it’s prepared to pay out to researchers who responsibly disclose vulnerabilities.

Researchers at Symantec say a recently discovered piece of malware aimed at Active Directory may be linked to a separate malware family used in attacks against targets in the U.S. and Vietnam.

San Francisco - Reddit on Thursday issued its first transparency report, revealing numbers of requests for user data and bids to have content removed from the online messaging board.

LightCyber, an Israel-based security breach detection and response solutions provider, today announced an improved version of its LightCyber Magna platform.