The options reportedly included tampering with trains, electric service and internet connectivity, hampering Russia's military operations in Ukraine. [...]

UK government and banks on alert for new form of electronic attack said to have infected hundreds of machines Russia-Ukraine crisis: live news Cyber experts have identified a new strain of computer-disabling malware unleashed on Ukrainian targets as part of Russia’s offensive, as the UK government and banks …

Sonya Duffin, ransomware and data-protection expert at Veritas Technologies, shares three steps organizations can take today to reduce cyberattack fallout. [...]

The SEO poisoning bot, capable of full system takeover, is actively taking over social media accounts, masquerading as popular games like Temple Run. [...]

Demand for public Wi-Fi is on the rise. Usually free of charge, but there is a risk of expensive losses. Learn ways to protect yourself from cyber-threats. [...]

With human error being the common factor in most cyberattacks, employee training has got to get better. To that end, Trustwave cybersec training expert Darren Van Booven explains the importance of fish stress balls and management buy-in. [...]

Attackers are sending email blasts with malware links in embedded PDFs as a way to evade email filters, lying about having fictional "video evidence." [...]

Nothing like zombie campaigns: WannaCry's old as dirt, and GandCrab threw in the towel years ago. They're on auto-pilot at this point, researchers say. [...]

The overall number of attacks on mobile users is down, but they're getting slicker, both in terms of malware functionality and vectors, researchers say. [...]

The Conti gang breached the cookware giant's network, prepping thousands of employees’ personal data for consumption by cybercrooks. [...]

Police have been accused of spying on at least 26 individuals who are not criminal suspects An inquiry into allegations that Israel’s police force systematically hacked into the mobile phones of Israeli citizens has found that while the police did use NSO Group’s controversial Pegasus malware, there …

Researchers discovered a new, modular banking trojan with ties to Cerberus and Alien that has the capability to become a much larger threat than it is now. [...]

Researchers said a Jan. 27 attack that aired footage of opposition leaders calling for assassination of Iran’s Supreme Leader was a clumsy and unsophisticated wiper attack. [...]

Newborn as it is, the Kraken botnet has already spread like wildfire, thanks to the malware's author tinkering away over the past few months, adding more infostealers and backdoors. [...]

On Tuesday, institutions central to Ukraine’s military and economy were hit with denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. Impact was limited, but the ramifications are not. [...]

Threat actors are infiltrating the increasingly popular collaboration app to attach malicious files to chat threads that drop system-hijacking malware. [...]

The resurgent trojan has targeted 60 top companies to harvest credentials for a wide range of applications, with an eye to virulent follow-on attacks. [...]

The phishing attacks are spoofing LinkedIn to target ‘Great Resignation’ job hunters, who are also being preyed on by huge data-scraping bot attacks. [...]

An ongoing malicious email campaign that includes macro-laden files and multiple layers of obfuscation has been active since late December. [...]

Researchers have never before seen SquirrelWaffle attackers use typosquatting to keep sending spam once a targeted Exchange server has been patched for ProxyLogon/ProxyShell. [...]

Enlarge / Warning: Data transfer in progress (credit: Yuri_Arcurs/Getty Images) Researchers on Tuesday revealed a new threat actor that over the past five years has blasted thousands of organizations with an almost endless stream of malicious messages designed to infect systems with data-stealing malware. TA2541, as security firm Proofpoint …

Since 2017, the attacker has flung simple off-the-shelf malware in malicious email campaigns aimed at aviation, aerospace, transportation and defense. [...]

Hours before the Superbowl and two days after the FBI warned about the ransomware gang, BlackByte leaked what are purportedly the NFL team's files. [...]

35K+ players were exposed to an auto-updater that planted a trojan that choked performance for fellow modders and Colossal Order employees. [...]

The ‘ModifiedElephant’ threat actors are technically unimpressive, but they’ve evaded detection for a decade, hacking human rights advocates' systems with dusty old keyloggers and off-the-shelf RATs. [...]