Thousands of ransomware victims may finally get some long-awaited relief. New Zealand-based security company Emsisoft has built a set of decryption
Police hijack a botnet and remotely kill 850,000 malware infections
In a rare feat, French police have hijacked and neutralized a massive cryptocurrency mining botnet controlling close to a million infected computers.
The Weird, Dark History of 8chan
Brennan, photographed in New City in 2014. But when Brennan’s wife opens the door to his apartment on an afternoon earlier this year, two small
How the West Got China’s Social Credit System Wrong
In October 2018, Vice President Mike Pence paid a visit to the Hudson Institute—a conservative Washington, DC, think tank—to give a
The Infrastructure Mess Causing Countless Internet Outages
In a weeks-long stretch in 2014, hackers stole thousands of dollars a day in cryptocurrency from owners. In 2017, internet outages cropped up around
Security News This Week: Hackers Used Two Firefox Zero Days to Hit a Crypto Exchange
The week began with a tricky Google Calendar phishing scam, and ended with Iran ramping up its cyberattacks against the US, as talk of war with that
Alphabet-Owned Jigsaw Bought a Russian Troll Campaign as an Experiment
For more than two years, the notion of social media disinformation campaigns has conjured up images of Russia's Internet Research Agency, an
Security News This Week: Cryptocurrency Company Hacks Itself Before Hackers Can Hack It
Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference kicked off the week, bringing with it some interesting security enhancements for iOS and macOS users. The
SEC expands its war on cryptocurrency companies with a lawsuit against Kik
The Securities and Exchange Commission has sued Kik Interactive for the $100 million token sale the company announced two years ago. It’s an