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An international law enforcement operation codenamed SpecTor has arrested 288 dark web vendors and customers worldwide, with police seizing €50.8 million ($55.9M) in cash and cryptocurrency.

Finback Investment Partners, Bush's private equity firm, was in negotiations to sell NSO spyware to U.S. police.

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) says Russian hackers are targeting various government bodies in the country with malicious emails supposedly containing instructions on how to update Windows as a defense against cyber attacks.

Political persecution, human rights violations, spying on opposition figures, and other instances of illiberal behavior should worry observers of the country.

A new version of the ViperSoftX information-stealing malware has been discovered with a broader range of targets, including targeting the KeePass and 1Password password managers.

Google is bringing end-to-end encryption to Google Authenticator cloud backups after researchers warned users against synchronizing 2FA codes with their Google accounts.

In some ways, past best practices for password policies may have made password cracking easier. Lets examine the most common types of password attacks, and how to defend against them.

A set of 38 Minecraft copycat games on Google Play infected devices with the Android adware HiddenAds to stealthily load ads in the background to generate revenue for its operators.

Hackers are deploying new Linux malware variants in cyberespionage attacks, such as a new PingPull variant and a previously undocumented backdoor tracked as Sword2033. 

A new reflective Denial-of-Service (DoS) amplification vulnerability in the Service Location Protocol (SLP) allows threat actors to launch massive denial-of-service attacks with 2,200X amplification.