Ten days after a suspected ransomware attack, residents of the English borough of Redcar and Cleveland must be starting to wonder when their Council’s IT systems will return.

A small but determined group of Twitter users think it is a good idea to direct message (DM) pictures of male genitals to complete strangers.

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Popular cryptocurrency IOTA has temporarily shut down its entire network after a hacker stole funds from ten of its highest-value users.

Researchers at VPN advisory company vpnMentor have found yet another online data exposure caused by a misconfigured cloud database.

A lack of proper code-signing verification and authentication for firmware updates opens the door to information disclosure, remote code execution, denial of service and more.

By Waqas

The hackers posed as women to send out malware and receive crucial information about the device as well as controlling key functions of the phone.

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By Waqas

An Iranian APT group ran a hacking campaign to hack VPN servers and install backdoors or bugs to access networks of firms across the globe. 

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Malicious social media posts said to have been viewed more than 200,000 times

A new email-based extortion scheme apparently is making the rounds, targeting Web site owners serving banner ads through Google's AdSense program. In this scam, the fraudsters demand bitcoin in exchange for a promise not to flood the publisher's ads with so much bot and junk traffic that Google's automated anti-fraud systems suspend the user's AdSense account for suspicious traffic.