CYBERSECURITY

More than 150,000 Twitter accounts located in Russia posted up to 45,000 messages about Brexit in the days around the 2016 EU referendum vote, new research suggests.

OnePlus said it does not see the factory-installed diagnostic tool as "a major security issue", but will remove it in an upcoming OTA.

"We're coming for you," an Anonymous hacker warned "organisation taking part in acts of domestic terrorism in the name of white supremacy".

The hijacked radio station is allegedly used by the Kim Jong-un regime to transmit secret codes days before Pyongyang conducts a weapons test.

The new alerts come amid rising tensions between the US and North Korea over Pyongyang's rapid advancement of its nuclear programme and defiant missile tests.

Forever 21 operates more than 815 stores in 57 countries including the US, UK, Australia,Canada and India.

Customers' names, email addresses, passwords, billing addresses, phone numbers, payment details and more may have been stolen by hackers.

Elections in at least 18 countries over the past 12 months have been influenced by carefully planned "manipulation and disinformation tactics", research suggests.

Anti-virus pioneer John McAfee has signed a partnership with Hacken, an Eastern European cybersecurity start-up built upon a new form of cryptocurrency, IBTimes UK can reveal.

IcedID is fairly new to the cybercrime arena, and its capabilities are believed to be on par with other sophisticated Trojans like Dridex and Zeus.

Sensitive financial documents from consultancy giant KPMG were found to be accessible with credentials not linked to the firm, the BBC has discovered.

The rules governing how UK police forces seize and extract data from digital devices – including laptops and phones – lack transparency and accountability, a report suggests.

Hacking groups linked to North Korea will continue to devastate the UK with major cyberattacks over the next year, former GCHQ director Robert Hannigan has warned.

US president Donald Trump's personal jet, as well as the one frequently used by vice president Mike Pence, is reportedly Boeing 757.

Just hours before Isis' "news agency" website Amaq was reportedly taken down, the site claimed it had beefed up security to handle "any type of hack".

The elaborate, 3D-printed mask reportedly cost about $150 (£114) to make and can bypass Apple's new Face ID security.

Last week, over 580 Parity wallets containing millions of dollars worth of Ethereum were mysteriously locked down and inaccessible.

From the return of WikiLeaks to the Nepal bank cyber-heist: Here are the biggest cybersecurity stories of the week from the IBTimes UK technology team.

The data exposure was caused by an unsecured Apache Hive database, which leaked extensive data about both customers and drivers.

A Reddit user reported that Lovense's remote control vibrator app recorded a six-minute session without their knowledge.

The Dark Overlord hackers stole a trove of confidential photos of high-profile clients from the plastic surgery clinic last month.

The flaw doesn't depend on jailbreak or rooting, instead capitalises on a simple developer error to expose massive amounts of sensitive data.

Trend Micro researchers found two malicious apps lurking in the Google Play Store masquerading as app lockers that were used to spread the malware.

The FBI's investigation into child pornography involved the agency hacking targets in hostile nations.

Former Marine Corps Captain Robert said the phishing attack was incredibly successful with click-through rates going "through the roof."

A banking Trojan that can mirror legitimate applications in order to steal credentials was recently discovered on Google's marketplace posing as a cryptocurrency service.

A cybercrime group is causing havoc in the US and Canada by hacking into the websites of police stations and schools and defacing them with pro-Islamic State propaganda.

Joseph Willner and his co-conspirators made at least $700,000 in profits through the hack-and-trade scheme

The leak comes just months after a university staffer leaked sensitive data, including family bereavements, health problems and personal issues, of students in another mass email.