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While analyzing malware that uses PowerShell for infection, Palo Alto Networks managed to uncover the infrastructure behind recent attacks that leveraged the Chthonic and Nymaim Trojans, along...
British cybersecurity researcher Marcus Hutchins, known online as “MalwareTech,” has pleaded not guilty in a U.S. court to charges related to creating and selling a banking Trojan named Kronos. read more
A phishing site seeking Apple credentials and victim payment card information is encrypted with AES, researchers at Ring 0 Labs said.
Researchers have demonstrated that it’s possible to create synthetic DNA strands containing malicious computer code that, if sequenced and analyzed, could compromise a computer. The main goal of...
Misconfiguration Issues with systems operated by Texas-based electrical engineering operator Power Quality Engineering (PQE) resulted in the information of various clients being exposed to the...
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Thousands of security researchers will be incentivized to identify critical software vulnerabilities within Dash’s code and present them to the Dash Core Team for remediation. Commencing in...
A British computer security researcher hailed as a hero for thwarting the "WannaCry" ransomware onslaught was in US custody on Thursday after being indicted on charges of creating malware to...
The WannaCry story has new life with the attacks having withdrawn the Bitcoin collected as ransom during the attacks, and with the detainment of killswitch researcher Marcus Hutchins in Nevada.
The 22-year-old British security researcher who gained fame for discovering the "kill switch" that stopped the outbreak of the WannaCry ransomware—has been reportedly arrested in the United States...