Score one for the good guys: Bitcanal, a Portuguese Web hosting firm long accused of helping spammers hijack large swaths of dormant Internet address space over the years, was summarily kicked off the Internet this week after a half-dozen of

The company said Tuesday it has signed a deal to acquire AlienVault, a software security company based in San Mateo, California, that specializes in detecting threats. The buyout will expand AT&T’s security services to small and medium-sized companies. “AlienVault’s expertise

Security researchers have discovered yet another cyber-attack campaign using stolen certificates to circumvent traditional security tools. The tactic was being used to launch a remotely controlled backdoor dubbed Plead and a related password stealer, according to Eset senior malware researcher,

Adobe has released security patches for a total 112 vulnerabilities in its products, most of which have a higher risk of being exploited. The vulnerabilities addressed in this month’s patch Tuesday affect Adobe Flash Player, Adobe Experience Manager, Adobe Connect,

New macOS malware targets crypto community via chat networks Slack and Discord. Hackers using MacOS malware are targeting cryptocurrency investors that use both the Slack and Discord chat platforms. The malware, dubbed OSX.Dummy, uses an unsophisticated infection method, but those

The head of the international department of the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission has warned against “mythologizing” blockchain technology, news outlet South China Morning Post reported July 9. Speaking at the 5th Fintech Bund Summit in Shanghai on July

Besides Timehop, another data breach was discovered last week that affects users of one of the largest web hosting companies in Germany, DomainFactory, owned by GoDaddy. The breach initially happened back in last January this year and just emerged last

The July Android Security bulletin tackles 44 vulnerabilities in all, with the bulk rated high in severity. Google issued 44 patches for its Android operating system as part of its July Security Bulletin this week. Of those vulnerabilities, 11 were

A look at the underground cybercrime landscape in 2018 shows a dynamic and quick-reacting community in the face of a successful crackdowns by law enforcement. Despite several successful crackdowns on several cybercriminal underworld gangs, miscreants have been highly active during

People are still getting over the most controversial data scandal of the year, i.e., Cambridge Analytica scandal, and Facebook is under fire yet again after it emerges that a popular quiz app on the social media platform exposed the private

The five-year-old Trojan-Ransom.Win32.Rakhni family has received a facelift that now allows it to decide whether or not to install its traditional ransomware or to drop a cryptominer instead. For the most part the injection chain remains unchanged, Kaspersky Labs reported.

After users complained online that their Galaxy devices are randomly sending photos to contacts, Samsung said it isn’t a hardware or software issue. Samsung says it isn’t seeing any software or hardware issues after a slew of Samsung phone users

Gamers who recently downloaded a Fortnite cheating app in order to gain an unfair advantage over fellow players found they had a hard time surviving a barrage of malicious ads that followed. Andrew Sampson, CEO of the game streaming app

Facebook has admitted that the company gave dozens of tech companies and app developers special access to its users’ data after publicly saying it had restricted outside companies to access such data back in 2015. It’s an unusual clear view

Security researchers at Microsoft have unveiled details of two critical and important zero-day vulnerabilities that had recently been discovered after someone uploaded a malicious PDF file to VirusTotal, and get patched before being used in the wild. In late March,