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The personal details of thousands of foreign nationals living in southern Thailand were briefly leaked online in what the site's developer admitted Monday was a data breach during a test for police.

A new fileless ransomware family has been discovered, which abuses Windows’ PowerShell for nefarious activities, a novel approach to ransomware, Carbon Black researchers warn.

Iran on Saturday denied supporting cyber attacks against the United States after a New York court indicted seven Iranians over hacking dozens of American banks and a major dam.

Belgium's network of nuclear power plants and other major infrastructure face the threat of a cyber-attack over the next five years, the European Union's counter-terror chief said in an interview published Saturday.

Cyber security firm Bromium has added $40 million to its coffers, thanks to an additional investment to support its growth in the increasingly competitive endpoint security market. The additional funding brings the total amount raised to-date by the company to a whopping $115 million.

Stolen usernames and passwords belonging to 18 million Internet users have been found on a server owned by a Japanese company, which is said to have provided services to Chinese hackers.

Security researchers at Kaspersky Lab have discovered a new piece of malware that uses a PNG (Portable Network Graphics) image to hide malicious code.

A new piece of malware dubbed Petya is making the rounds, and taking the threat of ransomware beyond simple file encryption activities.

A survey conducted by data protection company Vormetric and analyst firm 451 Research shows that a majority of IT security professionals in United States federal agencies feel their organization is vulnerable to data threats.

Surveillance cameras sold by more than 70 vendors worldwide were found to be vulnerable to Remote Code Execution (RCE) because of shared firmware code, a researcher has discovered.

Spying on the US is a service to China, state-run media said Wednesday, singing the praises of a man who confessed to hacking American defense contractors on Beijing's behalf.

Google has once again updated the Windows, Mac and Linux versions of Chrome 49 in order to patch several vulnerabilities, including high-risk issues for which researchers got paid thousands of dollars.Chrome 49.0.2623.108 resolves a total of five vulnerabilities, four of which have been identified and reported by external researchers.

Hackers reportedly stole the details of 1.5 million Verizon Enterprise customers after exploiting a vulnerability in the company’s website.Verizon Enterprise Solutions is a division of Verizon Communications that specializes in designing, building and operating networks, IT systems and mobile technologies for businesses and governments.

The website of security certification provider EC Council, best known for its Certified Ethical Hacker program, has been serving the Angler exploit kit (EK) for the past few days and continues to do so, security researchers at Fox-IT warn.

The United States on Thursday announced computer hacking charges against seven Iranians working for firms linked to the Iranian government, accusing them of infiltrating dozens of American banks and a major New York dam.