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Ransomware attacks have surged 78% year-over-year, affecting various sectors and organizations and significantly impacting supply chains. In this Help, Net Security video, Craig Birch, Technology...

The threat of deepfakes lies not in the technology itself, but in people’s natural tendency to trust what they see. As a result, deepfakes don’t need to be highly advanced or convincing to...

In the aftermath of the CrowdStrike IT outage, new research has uncovered a critical vulnerability within financial institutions regarding supply chain resilience. The outage has demonstrated the...

Total revenue for Q2 grew 32 percent CrowdStrike's major meltdown a month ago doesn't look like affecting the cyber security vendor's market dominance anytime soon, based on its earnings reported...

The South Korea-aligned cyberespionage group APT-C-60 has been leveraging a zero-day code execution vulnerability in the Windows version of WPS Office to install the SpyGlace backdoor on East...

CrowdStrike, other vendors, friendly govt reps…but not anyone would can tell you what happened op-ed Microsoft will host a security summit next month with CrowdStrike and other "key" endpoint...

If you haven't deployed August's patches, get busy before others do Windows users who haven't yet installed the latest fixes to their operating systems will need to get a move on, as code now...

A former core infrastructure engineer at an industrial company headquartered in Somerset County, New Jersey, was arrested after locking Windows admins out of 254 servers in a failed extortion plot...

The U.S. Department of State and the Secret Service have announced a reward of $2,500,000 for information leading to Belarusian national Volodymyr Kadariya (Владимир Кадария) for cybercrime...

The malicious PoorTry kernel-mode Windows driver used by multiple ransomware gangs to turn off Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) solutions has evolved into an EDR wiper, deleting files crucial...