Cybersecurity researchers reported details Monday of cases where Thai activists involved in the country’s pro-democracy protests had their cell phones or other devices infected and attacked with government-sponsored spyware.
A former CIA programmer was found guilty in New York federal court Wednesday of the 2017 leak of the US spy agency’s most valuable hacking tools to WikiLeaks, two years after his initial prosecution ended in mistrial.
News Analysis: Cybersecurity experts toss bouquets at Apple for removing attack surface from its flagship platforms and call on competing OS makers to match Cupertino’s attempts to neutralize the mercenary spyware business.
Cybersecurity firm Emsisoft has released free decryptor tools for AstraLocker, a “smash-and-grab” ransomware family that was recently retired.
The US Department of Justice announced on Friday that a man has been arrested and charged for allegedly selling fraudulent and counterfeit Cisco products.
A former CIA software engineer accused of causing the biggest theft of classified information in CIA history told a jury Thursday that there’s not enough evidence to convict him of espionage and other federal charges.
Faced with a surge in state-sponsored mercenary spyware attacks targeting its flagship iOS platform, Apple plans to add a new ‘Lockdown Mode’ that significantly reduces attack surface and adds technical roadblocks to limit sophisticated software exploits.
A new variant of the Hive ransomware written using the Rust programming language is more evasive and provides attackers with flexibility, courtesy of support for command-line parameters.
Cybersecurity experts say the California Department of Justice apparently failed to follow basic security procedures on its website, exposing the personal information of potentially hundreds of thousands of gun owners.
A Dutch university that fell victim to a massive ransomware attack has partly received back its stolen money… which in the meantime more than doubled in value, a news report said on Saturday.
