Cybersecurity

Discovery made after visitors reported significant spikes in CPU usage when visiting some pages on the site.

Previously, news broke that hackers successfully stole over 200,000 credit card accounts in the massive breach.

The trove of stolen data includes private dossiers on 90 different artistes, ranging from Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber to Madonna.

A new campaign involves hacked LinkedIn accounts being used to spread phishing links via InMail and private messages.

25-year-old Sean Caffrey stole usernames and passwords from the US DoD.

The individuals were indicted by the Justice Department in March last year over their role in the DDoS attacks.

University team able to access personal data and create false activity records.

The malware hijacks routers and turns them into proxies, allowing the hacker to launch credential stuffing attacks.

Last week, Equifax disclosed a historic data breach that compromised valuable financial data of about 143 million Americans.

The bug bounty comes with a deadline and valid flaws must be reported by 30 November 2017.

Android malware with millions of downloads was found on the Google Play Store.

US congressman Adam Schiff would "love" Facebook and Twitter to give evidence.

'To me, this is just negligence,' Hold Security founder Alex Holden said.

Cybersecurity pioneer believes bitcoin will spike to a value of $500,000 by 2020

One BankBot-infected app was downloaded between 5,000 and 10,000 times.

The massive hack is one of the largest in US history and the biggest known leak this year so far.

Companies that fail to report cybersecurity infomation will be fined.

Russian cyber firm Kaspersky Lab struck a defiant tone in expansion pledge.

Monero and ZCash are the two most popular virtual currencies as the 'anonymity of transactions' is attractive to hackers.

The zero-day vulnerability was exploited 'for cyberespionage purposes' and targeted Russian-speaking users.

'Apple just became the many-faced god,' one Twitter user wrote.

Security experts say that nearly 99% of the infected servers are hosted in Amazon Web Services.

Silent attacks are invisible to traditional security controls, and can spread without clicks.

Risks of insecure connections revealed by industry experts.

Players warned about the dangers of WiFi connections and social media.

Bashware makes use of Windows' in-built Linux shell to make any malware essentially undetectable to security products.

Researchers warned the current period of 'relative stabilisation' will see cybercriminals diversifying their potential victims.

The bot – dubbed 'DoNotPay' – helps victims file small claims court complaints.

The flaws could allow hackers to potentially gain root access, remotely hijack and control routers.

A bug in Equifax's credit monitoring site could allow hackers to trick users into handing over more sensitive data.