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A rise in cyber attacks against doctors and hospitals is costing the U.S. health-care system $6 billion a year as organized criminals who once targeted retailers and financial firms increasingly go after medical records, security researchers say.

Spear phishing and its evolutions like the watering hole attack represent one of the most insidious attack techniques adopted by the majority of threat actors in cyberspace.

Security researchers have shed new light on seven-year-old point-of-sale (POS) malware still being used today, most recently to attack casinos and resort hotels...

Security firms report a sharp rise in the quantity of attacks that use macro code - designed to automate tasks - to trigger malware downloads, often for the purpose of stealing people's online banking credentials.

Last year's breach of unclassified White House computer systems was far more intrusive than initially thought and included the theft of some presidential correspondence, The New York Times reported Friday.

Macro malware isn't dead yet, if a new campaign targeting banks and financial institution is any indication.

Four days after Defense Secretary Ash Carter launched the Pentagon’snew cyber strategy, experts and officials offered a grim picture of the global threat. The threat is metastasizing in ways that will require new kinds of defenses — even while many US companies and government agencies lag on basic cybersecurity measures.

Trend Micro’s Dave Abramowitz discusses the White House hack attack with Bloomberg’s Alix Steel on “Street Smart.”

Sextortion—enticing victims to send naked or sexually suggestive pictures of themselves, which are then used to blackmail them for money or sexual favors—is not a new digital phenomenon. But the methods of accomplishing it are evolving. A new Android app has been developed expressly for use by sextortionist-minded hackers.

Times are a changing. Once a upon a time your security was all about a decent Firewall and some Anti-Virus and you were good to go. Yeah, not so much any more. Signature based Anti-Virus, as a tool to protect you from infection, is pretty much useless in this day and age. Why, because hackers and the techniques they use to infect you have evolved.

Failing to properly secure your website can seriously damage your brand. Don't let your site visitors get cyber-mugged.

The threat landscape is constantly changing, and so is the information deemed valuable to hackers. While 2014 was the so-called year of the breach, when consumer card data was the hottest commodity, 2015 has been marked by more attacks aimed at compromising personally identifiable information and corporate intellectual property.

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A widely reported Russian cyber-spying campaign against diplomatic targets in the United States and elsewhere has been using two previously unknown flaws in software to penetrate target machines, a security company investigating the matter said on Saturday.

Threat actors have set up several new C&C servers and dozens of new malicious URLs -- and now targeting White House staffers, Trend Micro says.

Even though its activities were exposed last year, a cyberespionage group dubbed Pawn Storm has ramped up its efforts over the past few months, targeting NATO members and potentially the White House.

Many ordinary people imagine hackers as Guy Fawkes-mask-wearing rebels living on the margins of society, suspicious of government, and courageous or crazy enough to follow wherever their computer wizardry takes them. In reality, said experts, many just want a steady job.

More small businesses are falling victim to “ransomware,” in which malicious code locks up computer files and cybercriminals demand a ransom to free them.

Online dating hackers are becoming much more sophisticated in the way they target and steal money victims' cash. Cybercriminals are now asking their "dates" to install a custom-made smartphone app that installs malware and allows them to extract details for blackmail purposes, Global Dating Insights reports.

Fourteen C&Cs dismantled to take out nerve center of a botnet that spanned 190 countries.

Analysts believe that recent point-of-sale (POS) malware attacks targeting more than 100 terminals in Brazil were the handiwork of a single person – who managed to steal more than 22,000 unique credit cards numbers in a little over a month.

Survey results indicate a lack of information about the security safeguards in place is fueling respondents’ worries about Internet of Things (IoT).

A new report released this week by Trend Micro and the Organization of American States (OAS) shows a dramatic increase in cyberattacks directed against critical infrastructure owners and operators.