Security News > 2017 > June

The Shadow Brokers has sent out its first round of exploits and data as part of a recently announced monthly subscription service, and the group claims it has a significant number of subscribers. read more

A new HackerOne report examines over 800 hacker-powered programs from organizations including Airbnb, GitHub, General Motors, Intel, Lufthansa, Nintendo, U.S. Department of Defense, Uber, and...

Cybercriminals have been shifting their tactics markedly, by registering more and more domain names, rather using web servers and domains they have hacked into. These “malicious domain...

Petya/NotPetya Ransomware May Not be a Financially Motivated Attack, Researchers Say read more

What if I say the Tuesday's devastating global malware outbreak was not due to any ransomware infection? Yes, the Petya ransomware attacks that began infecting computers in several countries,...

Companies in the video game industry and possibly other sectors have been targeted in attacks involving improved variants of the notorious PlugX remote access trojan (RAT). read more

Rapidly Spreading 'Petya' Malware Variant Has an Appetite For DestructionIs Petya worse than WannaCry? The second global outbreak of file-encrypting malware in as many months sees cyberattackers...

WikiLeaks has published CherryBlossom, the CIA's program to hack into wireless routers. The program is about a decade old. Four good news articles. Five. And a list of vulnerable routers....

Rapidly Spreading Malware Has an Appetite For DestructionIs Petya worse than WannaCry? The second global outbreak of file-encrypting malware in as many months sees cyberattackers having designed...

Microsoft is making every effort to make its Windows operating system more secure and advanced than ever before by beefing up its security practices and hardening it against hackers and cyber...