The company managing the Sellafield nuclear site in the United Kingdom has been fined £332,500 ($435,400) in a landmark prosecution after pleading guilty to three criminal charges over cybersecurity ...

More than 120 countries faced cyberattacks over the last year, with Ukraine, Israel, South Korea and Taiwan topping the list of the most targeted countries, according to a new report from Microsoft.

Google has sent email notifications to more than 14,000 Gmail users that they've been the target of a spear-phishing attack orchestrated by a state-sponsored hacking group. "In late September, we ...

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has released the first-ever ethical guidelines for civilian hackers — or hacktivists — engaged in armed conflicts. The organization asks hacktivists ...

Cybercriminals are now deploying ransomware within the first day of initially compromising their targets, a dramatic drop on the 4.5 days that the task had been taking last year, according to a new ...

The maintainers of a popular open source tool that serves as a foundational support for many network protocols like SSL, TLS, HTTP, FTP and SMTP are warning of two vulnerabilities that will be ...

Government-run water systems are still at risk of attack by cybercriminals and nation-states, according to a new advisory from the U.S.’s top cybersecurity agency. The notice from the Cybersecurity ...

The Justice Department and FBI need to redefine what counts as success in fighting the scourge of ransomware, a new internal audit recommends. In the 26-page audit released Tuesday, Department of ...

It’s difficult to imagine a bigger hiring blunder. Google said it has been contacted by several major U.S. companies recently who discovered that they unknowingly hired North Koreans using fake ...

The U.S. Department of Defense this week formally asked lawmakers to kill a proposal that would require an independent assessment of establishing a separate cyber service. The request was submitted to ...

Russia has fully pivoted its disinformation efforts to focus on Vice President Kamala Harris, releasing several fake, widely-seen videos designed to harm her campaign. Microsoft published a new report ...

Radio Geretsried, a local station in Germany, has blamed “unknown attackers from Russia” after an apparent ransomware incident left it broadcasting music from emergency backups. The attack is the ...