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A recent distribution campaign resulted in thousands of machines being infected with the Qbot malware, Cylance security researchers warn.

Security Professionals Can Use Strategic Threat Intelligence to Help Justify Security Spending Decisions and to Realign Budgets

Three Nigerian nationals have been handed prison sentences totaling 235 years by a U.S. court for their role in a massive international online scheme that involved romance scams, identity theft, fraud and money laundering.

Researchers have conducted a detailed analysis of pacemaker systems from four major vendors and discovered many potentially serious vulnerabilities.

Russia's campaign of cyberespionage and disinformation has targeted hundreds of individuals and organizations from at least 39 countries along with the United Nations and NATO, researchers said Thursday.

The recent WannaCry ransomware outbreak is yet another wake-up call. Humans alone can no longer be expected to manually respond to brazen, fast-spreading cyber-attacks that strike without warning and routinely bypass porous network borders.

One of the vulnerabilities addressed by Google in its  May 2017 security patches allowed the bypass of Nexus 6’s Secure Boot through kernel command-line injection, HCL Technologies researchers reveal.

Emeryville, CA-based endpoint security and systems management firm Tanium announced on Thursday that it has raised $100 million through the sale of common stock.

The European General Data Protection Regulation will take effect in exactly one year from today. It will affect any company that does business with the EU, whether that company is based in Europe or elsewhere (such as the US). While there have been many surveys indicating that affected firms are far from prepared, there are few that highlight the geographic disparity in readiness.

Terra Privacy announced on Wednesday a new product that uses dynamic whitelisting to block malware and phishing attacks. A free beta version of the endpoint security product is available for testing.

By this point, we’ve all heard about the major ransomware attack that impacted an estimated 200,000 computers across 150 countries earlier this month. A malware variant dubbed WannaCry made its way into network infrastructure globally, encrypting data and demanding a ransom of $300 USD per infected computer.

Influential Organizations and Individuals or Those With Ties to Government or Political Institutions May be Targets for Cyber Attacks 

Was North Korea behind the ransomware epidemic that hit global computer networks earlier this month?