By Danny Lopez, CEO of Glasswall Since its creation in 2009, cryptocurrency has operated as a decentralized, self-managed

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Network-attached storage (NAS) solutions manufacturer QNAP on Wednesday warned users of a DeadBolt ransomware campaign targeting their devices, encouraging them to correctly secure any Internet-facing NAS and routers.

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"BotenaGo" contains exploits for more than 30 vulnerabilities in multiple vendor products and is being used to spread Mirai botnet malware, security vendor says.

Apple late Wednesday pushed out an urgent iOS update with fixes for 11 documented security flaws and warned that one of the vulnerabilities “may have been actively exploited.”

In a barebones advisory, Apple acknowledged the zero-day took aim at a memory corruption issue in IOMobileFrameBuffer, an oft-targeted iOS kernel extension.

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The memory corruption vulnerability in a policy component installed by default on most Linux distributions allows any user to become root. Researchers have already reproduced the exploit.

Europol and 10 nations seized servers and disconnected the anonymous network allegedly used by many cybercriminals in the latest effort to hobble cybercrime groups.

The incident response landscape has changed drastically, largely from shifting attitudes among insurance companies and, to some extent, business customers feeling the pain of security incidents.

Supply chain account takeover is the most pressing issue facing email security today, but artificial intelligence can head off such attempts.

Epic Games has revealed a significant change to the Spider-Man Mythic item in competitive playlists. Morale in the competitive Fortnite…

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Variants of the Mirai codebase are still a popular way to compromise and subvert Internet of Things devices, but experts fear more serious threats may be ahead.

Hong Kong pro-democracy radio station website compromised to serve a Safari exploit that installed cyberespionage malware on site visitors’ Macs

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The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has issued a flash alert connecting Diavol ransomware to hackers who are behind the Trickbot banking Trojan, according to a notice late last week. The FBI’s cyber division said it first learned of Diavol ransomware in October. Analysts quickly associated the data-encrypting malware with the developers of Trickbot. Trickbot is an […]