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As it has done many times over the past year with unwanted Android applications on its Play store, Google has removed 89 browser extensions from its official Chrome web store after a security vendor identified them as being malicious. Google has also disabled the rogue extensions from running on the devices of over 420,000 Chrome users whose browsers were infected with the malware. In a blog Feb.

The Olympics have always been a geopolitical microcosm: beyond the athletic match-ups, they provide a vehicle for diplomacy and propaganda, and even, occasionally, a proxy for war. It stands to reason, then, that in 2018 they've also become a nexus of hacker skullduggery. The Olympics unfolding next week in Pyeongchang may already be the most thoroughly hacked in the games' history—with potentially more surprises to come.

Vehicle hacking already has a 15-year pedigree. Though there are at least 36 million vehicles on the road today already connected to the internet, manufacturers appear to have learned little from the biggest security crises of the internet era. Cybersecurity is, yet again, a bolted-on afterthought rather than an integral part of the engineering of an interconnected vehicle.

Trend Micro calls the legacy threat 'Throwhack'; after the more benign 'Throwback Thursday' social media trend; but, says principal security strategist Bharat Mistry in a blog published today, "there’s nothing entertaining about this list of legacy security challenges."

The risk and insurance community consistently ranks cyberrisk as its top area of interest and concern, and it’s no wonder—these days, every year is a banner year for cybersecurity. The more that stays the same, the more things change.

North Korea is one of the least wired nations on Earth. It has two internet connections to the outside world, one that crosses the Yalu River into China, and the other plugs into Russia’s Far East.

Google’s DoubleClick ad network has come under attack by cryptocurrency miners who infiltrated Google ads to tap into the CPU power of those who view these ads on YouTube. Operating like a malware attack, the hacked ads were detected when some users got alerts from antivirus software programs and/or experienced slowdowns in their internet activity.

Cybercriminals have learned that many businesses will pay if a ransomware attack cripples their day-to-day operations. Ransomware drove the spike in digital extortion in 2017 and remains cybercriminals' weapon of choice, according to a new Trend Micro study "Digital Extortion: A Forward-Looking View."

Cyber-criminals will find new ways to blackmail and extort organizations and individuals in 2018, supercharging ransomware, launching online smear campaigns and firing out targeted attacks aimed at key facilities, according to Trend Micro.

After the Equifax breach, identity-theft horror stories have been easy to come by. One solution, according to many experts, is freezing your credit — something hardly anyone has done. "The good news is you know all of your own history, and this breach is so well-known and far-reaching that if you are a victim, it should be easier than usual to fight," Mark Nunnikhoven, the head of cloud research for the cybersecurity firm Trend Micro, told CNN.