Key factors leading to the growth of network security market revenue in the Asia Pacific region includes instances of ransomware attacks, targeted attacks and phishing.

A similar technology to DeepNude, the 2019 app that shut down shortly after launch, is now spreading unfettered on Telegram.

Advisory applies not just to victims but also to security and finance firms they hire.

Computer systems for Universal Health Services, which has more than 400 locations, primarily in the U.S., began to fail over the weekend.

Operation Disruptor is an unprecedented international law enforcement effort, stemming from last year’s seizure of a popular underground bazaar called Wall Street Market.

The outage resulted in a significant delay in treatment. German authorities are investigating the perpetrators on suspicion of negligent manslaughter.

The same Russian intelligence outfit that hacked the Democrats in 2016 has tried to hack into more than 200 organizations' systems, Microsoft says.

On April 28, 2016, an IT tech staffer for the Democratic National Committee named Yared Tamene made a sickening discovery: A notorious Russian hacker group known as Fancy Bear had penetrated a DNC server "at the heart of the network," as he would later tell the US Senate's Select Committee on Intelligence.

Tesla managed to prevent a recent attempt to infect its computer network with malicious software, says Elon Musk. Tesla employee cooperated with the Federal Bureau of Investigation towards catching the ones who are responsible for the attack. This malicious software would have created chaos in Tesla’s Gigafactory computer network by letting perpetrators extort ransom from the company.

Earlier this week, US authorities arrested and charged a Russian national for traveling to the US to recruit and convince an employee of a Nevada company to install malware on their employer's network in exchange for $1 million.

Researchers have found what they believe is a previously undiscovered botnet that uses unusually advanced measures to covertly target millions of servers around the world.

In the decade since the hacker Barnaby Jack famously made an ATM spit out cash on stage during the 2010 Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, so-called jackpotting has become a popular criminal pastime, with heists netting tens of millions of dollars around the world. And over time, attackers have become increasingly sophisticated in their methods.

According to the company, a small number of employees were targeted in a "phone spear phishing attack," suggesting that hackers called some of its staff and duped them into thinking they were speaking with fellow Twitter employees, leading them to reveal the credentials the hackers needed to access internal account support tools.

Disruption has been Toyota’s way but this time it wasn’t the tech giant that was disrupting the market, this time hackers disrupted or rather dented its image forever. March this year Toyota witnessed a breach quake whose deep pervasive fault lines ran far and wide to its 3.1 million customers. But, if you are mistaken into thinking that this was the worst breakdown in the 2019 cybersecurity universe, then you haven’t heard about Citrix. The software giant was slumbering in its hushed sleep of stunted security until the FBI beat the alarm loud and clear up close in its ears - Citrix systems were hacked.

In a joint operation, European and British law enforcement agencies recently arrested hundreds of alleged drug dealers and other criminals after infiltrating into a global network of an encrypted chatting app that was used to plot drug deals, money laundering, extortions, and even murders.

When law enforcement agencies tout their latest cybercriminal arrest, the defendant is often cast as a bravado outlaw engaged in sophisticated, lucrative, even exciting activity.

Have you been missing something amid the lockdowns and stay-at-home orders? No, not human contact. Not even toilet paper. Robocalls. Industry experts say robocalls are way down — scam calls as well as nagging from your credit-card company to pay your bill. The coronavirus pandemic has inflicted millions of job losses, and scammers have not been immune.

Officials say they will not bow to any blackmail or ransom demands. According to a statement issued on Monday by the Office of Court Administration (OCA), later posted on Twitter, the attack took place overnight last Thursday and was discovered on Friday morning.

Hackers have registered domains posing as Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Google Meet-related URLs, according to a new report from Check Point Research. As significantly more people are using these videoconferencing services during the COVID-19 pandemic, the domains could be used to pose as official links, potentially tricking people into downloading malware or accidentally giving a bad actor access to personal information.

The pandemic has provided a huge new opportunity for hackers, scammers, and criminals to target frightened and vulnerable people.