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Researchers at Symantec have analyzed the Vault 7 files published in recent weeks by WikiLeaks and determined that they are very similar to ones used by a cyberespionage group tracked by the security firm as “Longhorn.”

U.S. Authorities Take Down Kelihos Botnet as Alleged Creator is Arrested in Spain

Video gaming retail company GameStop appears to have been breached, with an unknown number of customers' payment card details stolen. Those details are thought to include customer card number, expiration date, name, address and card verification value (CVV2), usually a 3-digit security code printed on the back of the card.

Everyone remembers the social media boom of the mid-2000s. While social networks such as MySpace and Friendster already existed and had fledgling ad revenue models, it wasn’t until the emergence of Twitter, Facebook’s acquisition of FriendFeed, and the development of tools such as HubSpot and HootSuite, that businesses began to take social media seriously as a digital channel.

British payday loan company Wonga has informed customers that their personal and financial data may have been stolen in a cyberattack.

Researchers at vulnerability management services provider Digital Defense have identified four security holes in Riverbed SteelCentral, a popular application and network performance monitoring product.

The City of Dallas, Texas, emergency alarm system was compromised by a hacker or hackers late Friday night. All 156 outside sirens, usually used for severe weather warnings, were activated more than a dozen times between approximately 11:45 pm Friday and 1:20 am Saturday until engineers manually disabled the system.

An unpatched critical vulnerability in Microsoft Office is being exploited by malicious actors to achieve full code execution on target machines, McAfee and FireEye security researchers warn.

A Russian national arrested by the Spanish police last week is believed to be the programmer behind the infamous Kelihos spam botnet.

The hacker group calling itself “Shadow Brokers” has released another round of exploits and tools allegedly used by the NSA-linked threat actor “Equation Group,” along with a message to U.S. President Donald Trump.

Hundreds of thousands of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and industrial control systems (ICS) products could be exposed to hacker attacks due to critical vulnerabilities affecting a widely used piece of software from Germany-based 3S-Smart Software Solutions.

A recently observed backdoor Trojan is ensnaring victims’ computers into a botnet that attempts to brute-force its way into WordPress accounts.

Security researchers have identified a new type of cyber attack causes damage to Internet of Things (IoT) devices, rather than ensnaring them into a botnet.

Researchers have discovered a strange new ransomware called 'rensenWare'. Rather than demanding money for decryption, it requires the victim to score "over 0.2 billion" playing "TH12 -- Undefined Fantastic Object". Victims are told that the score will be monitored, and decryption will be automatic on success, provided there is no attempt to cheat.

The Triada malware, said last year to be the most advanced mobile threat, recently boosted its detection evasion capabilities with the adoption of sandbox technology, Avast security researchers reveal.