The powerful commercial surveillance tool Predator may have taken a beating in March when U.S. officials announced sweeping sanctions against the spyware purveyor’s parent company and leadership, but ...

Reported ransomware attacks on organizations in the United Kingdom reached record levels last year, when criminals compromised data on potentially more than 5.3 million people from over 700 ...

The global charity organization Save the Children International confirmed that it was recently hit with a cyberattack after a ransomware group claimed to have breached the organization’s systems. A ...

Russia acknowledged this week that parts of its technology industry are dependent on foreign knowledge and lagging competitors by more than a decade, raising concerns that the country’s cyber spies ...

Kids would ring a doorbell — maybe numerous times in a single afternoon — and then run away. That childish prank has given way to something called swatting. Someone calls the police with a hoax report ...

Sri Lanka’s government email network was hit by a ransomware attack that wiped months of data from thousands of email accounts, including ones belonging to top government officials, authorities ...

The European aerospace giant Airbus said on Tuesday that it is investigating a cybersecurity incident following reports that a hacker posted information on 3,200 of the company’s vendors to the dark ...

Hackers attacked the national power grid of an unspecified Asian country earlier this year using malware typically deployed by personnel connected to China’s government, researchers said Tuesday.

European Union lawmakers are aiming to protect journalists from member states targeting them with spyware following a number of high-profile incidents across the bloc. Alongside measures promoting ...

What do you get when you pair hard-bitten cops with cyber whiz kids? One of the largest, most creative dark market takedowns in the history of the internet. In 2017, police with the Netherlands’ ...

As tourists descended on Bardstown, Kentucky — the “Bourbon Capital of the World” — for Labor Day weekend, the town had a problem: A ransomware attack hit the local government, knocking municipal ...

Researchers identified a new phishing campaign that uses Microsoft Word documents to distribute malware that can log what a victim types, siphon cryptocurrency funds, and steal sensitive data. To get ...