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North Korean hackers stole millions of dollars from virtual currency accounts and then laundered the stolen funds in hopes of making the crime untraceable, according to a Justice Department civil forfeiture complaint filed Thursday.

The Iran-linked hacking group known as Charming Kitten recently switched to WhatsApp and LinkedIn to conduct phishing attacks, Clearsky security researchers reveal.

Since February 2020, North Korean state-sponsored hackers have been targeting banks in multiple countries, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Department of the Treasury, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and U.S. Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) warn in a joint advisory.

US retail giant Walmart said Thursday it had teamed with Microsoft to buy TikTok, the Chinese-owned short-form video app that has come under fire from the administration of President Donald Trump.

The failed attempt by Russian hackers to recruit an employee to install malware onto an enterprise network was targeting electric car maker Tesla, a tweet from Elon Musk confirms.

Cisco this week released patches for ten high-risk vulnerabilities in NX-OS software, including some that could lead to code execution and privilege escalation.

Researchers have once again demonstrated that many printers can be hacked remotely, by hijacking 28,000 devices and instructing them to print out a printer security guide.

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Content delivery network (CDN) provider Fastly (NYSE: FSLY) announced on Thursday that it has agreed to acquire web application security firm Signal Sciences for approximately $775 million in cash and stock. 

Microsoft warned on Thursday that a recently uncovered piece of malware designed to help cybercriminals steal information from infected systems is now actively distributed in the wild.

Avast security researchers have identified vulnerabilities in DVB-T2 devices that could allow attackers to ensnare them in botnets.

Cyber attacks forced New Zealand's stock exchange to halt trading Thursday for the third time in as many days, its operator said Thursday, just as the country's corporate reporting season gets underway.

A sophisticated cybercrime group has stolen payment card data from hundreds of websites over the past five years using JavaScript sniffer malware, threat hunting and intelligence company Group-IB reported on Thursday.

Google’s own engineers were troubled by the way the company secretly tracked the movements of people who didn’t want to be followed until a 2018 Associated Press investigation uncovered the shadowy surveillance, according to unsealed documents in a consumer fraud case.

Facebook is pushing back on new Apple privacy rules for its mobile devices — and putting app developers in the middle.

A man from the African country of Ghana was recently extradited to the United States over his role in various types of cybercrime schemes that authorities say caused millions of dollars in losses.

Application security testing company GrammaTech announced on Wednesday that it has released an open source tool designed to detect API usage errors.

Palantir Technologies Inc., a data-mining company with deep ties to U.S. intelligence and military agencies, has shed a good deal of its trademark secrecy about its business in filing for a Wall Street stock offering.

Chrome 85 was released in the stable version with 20 security fixes inside, including patches for 14 vulnerabilities disclosed by external researchers.

A sophisticated hack-for-hire group specializing in industrial espionage exploited the Autodesk 3ds Max modeling and animation software in an attack aimed at a company involved in luxury real estate projects, cybersecurity firm Bitdefender reported on Wednesday.