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Google said Thursday it blocked YouTube channels and other accounts over a misinformation campaign linked to Iran, on the heels of similar moves by Facebook and Twitter.

In a recent attack against a cryptocurrency exchange, the North Korea-linked Lazarus group went the extra mile by deploying malware for macOS, Kaspersky Lab has discovered.

The timely delivery of security updates for Android smartphones is a highly important defense-in-depth strategy, Google says.

ESET security researchers have analyzed a new backdoor used by the Russian-speaking advanced persistent threat (APT) group known as Turla.

A newly discovered Mirai variant has been created using an open-source project that makes the process of cross compilation very easy, Symantec reports.

Despite government demands for backdoors into end-to-end encryption, it remains a legitimate requirement for business. Political tensions affect, but don't stop, international commerce; and business teams visiting foreign countries need to know that their communications are secure and delivered. The problem is domestic as well as international -- staff are increasingly mobile and work from any hotspot or free WiFi location they can find.

Japanese electrical engineering company Yokogawa published two security advisories last week to inform customers that some of its products are affected by serious vulnerabilities.

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UPDATED. A recent phishing attack aimed at the Democratic National Committee’s voter database was actually part of a simulation, researchers and representatives of the Democratic Party confirmed.

Facebook on Wednesday said it has suspended more than 400 of thousands of applications it has investigated to determine whether people's personal information was being improperly shared.

Microsoft this week made available another round of microcode updates created by Intel for mitigating the recently disclosed speculative execution vulnerabilities tracked as Foreshadow and L1 Terminal Fault (L1TF).

An attempt to break into the Democratic National Committee’s massive voter database has been thwarted, a party official said Wednesday, two years after Russian operatives sent the party into disarray by hacking into its computers and facilitating the release of tens of thousands of emails amid the presidential election.

Ghostscript Impacted by Multiple -dSAFER Sandbox Bypass Vulnerabilities

A recent wave of ransomware attacks against organizations around the world have been linked to a notorious North Korean threat actor, security firm Check Point says.

Updates released on Wednesday for the Apache Struts 2 open source development framework address a critical vulnerability that can be exploited for remote code execution.The flaw, tracked as CVE-2018-11776, affects Struts 2.3 through 2.3.34, Struts 2.5 through 2.5.16, and possibly unsupported versions of the framework.

Threat actors apparently working out of Iran have been conducting an operation whose goal is to influence the opinions of people in the United States and other countries around the world, FireEye reported on Tuesday.

Security researchers have uncovered a supply chain attack aimed at infecting organizations in South Korea with a remote access Trojan (RAT) to steal valuable information.

The Use of DMARC is Growing -- But it is Difficult to Configure Correctly and Completely

Intentionally or not, Microsoft has emerged as a kind of internet cop by devoting considerable resources to thwarting Russian hackers.