A couple of days ago we reported about the ongoing cyber war between Armenian-Turkish groups while Azerbaijani hackers missing from the action. But now they are back in the news by hacking the official Twitter account of Russian Embassy in Armenia earlier

India is the fourth country that has most number of attacks by the Downadup malware family, a report by Finland-based online security and privacy company F-Secure, said. It added that besides India, this threat was most frequently detected in Finland,

Russian security researchers have discovered a Trojan for Android that contains malware and spyware features hidden in 104 Android apps on the Google Play store. It has been downloaded over 3.2 million times already onto victims’ devices. Researchers at antivirus

(CNN) – A cyber epidemic is crippling businesses around the world. The tech world calls it ransomware, which is a type of malicious software that blocks access to a computer system until a payoff is made. An Apple operating system fell

Want to read a business rival’s email? Dell wonks say hacked-corporate-email-as-a-service operators can deliver for just US$500. That low, low, price is offered by one accomplished hacker on a popular cyber crime forum and detailed in a Secure Works report

A founding partner of the Panamanian law firm at the center of the Panama Papers scandal says it is a “victim” and the real crime is hacking. “We rule out an inside job. This is not a leak. This is a hack,” Ramon

Less than a year after it was hacked, its emails leaked all over the Web, Milan-based government spyware creator Hacking Team TISI +% is facing fresh trouble. Not from another hacktivist, however, but an official authority, which has revoked the

A Philippine senator said on Wednesday that Chinese hackers were likely to have pulled off one of the world’s biggest cyber heists at the Bangladesh central bank, citing the network of Chinese people involved in the routing of the stolen

Black Hat Asia The most popular Firefox extensions with millions of active users are open to attacks that can quietly compromise machines and pass Mozilla’s automated and human security tests. The extension reuse attacks exploit weaknesses in the structure of

Hackers in China haven’t retired their assaults on American targets, but U.S. intelligence officials aren’t certain if Beijing has fully breached the terms of a cyber pact reached last year between President Obama and his Chinese counterpart, NSA Director Navy

In the face of increasing government requests for digital information and the rising threat posed by hackers, WhatsApp is taking steps to make sure its users’ chats are kept secret. The mobile-messaging application with 1 billion users, which Facebook Inc.

Being a responsible, friendly hacker means you don’t get to take advantage of the bugs and holes you find, even if those could’ve let you get free pizza. Paul Price, a security consultant from the UK, found a bug in

Adobe will this week issue an out-of-band patch for Flash after spotting a critical flaw that is now being “actively exploited” in the wild. The flaw, CVE-2016-1019, affects Flash Player version 20.0.0.306 and older for Windows, OS X, Linux, and

It’s becoming cheaper than ever to buy hacking tools online. Intelligence analysts found that business is booming in underground markets for Russian and other hackers, according to a new report released Tuesday by security firm Dell SecureWorks Inc. Malware, which

The hackers who seriously disrupted operations at a large hospital chain recently and held some data hostage broke into a computer server left vulnerable despite urgent public warnings since at least 2007 that it needed to be fixed with a

AS CHIEF POLICY officer at HackerOne, Katie Moussouris helped the Defense Department launch its Hack-the-Pentagon program—the first federal bug bounty program that promises to pay hackers who uncover vulnerabilities in the DoD’s public-facing web sites. That was after spending three