Up to 17.4 million Android users downloaded a form of Trojan malware found in 144 separate mobile applications, security researchers from McAfee warned this week.
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.
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.
A 20-year-old man living in Gran Canaria, Spain, has admitted to beating his neighbour to death after she complained about the noise from his video games.
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.
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.
Emails sent between the UK's Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and Swedish lawyers, discussing the case of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, were reportedly deleted back in 2014.
A new artificial intelligence-powered chatbot has been created to fight back against pesky email scammers who fill up your inbox with dodgy links and the promise of riches.
A Sudanese man accused of planning a terror attack on British soil thought it was okay to download bomb-making instructions because they had not been deleted by Facebook.
Whistleblowing website WikiLeaks has released a fresh batch of secret documentation allegedly pilfered from inside the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
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.
TripAdvisor will now show 'health and safety' warnings next to hotels and resorts on its website that have been reported by users to be locations of crime.
Rogue websites are advertising fake premium rate numbers claiming to be cruelty phone lines used by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA).