Investment app Robinhood has revealed an extortionist accessed its internal systems and siphoned off customer data after tricking a support desk worker. “Late in the

Spyware maker NSO Group cannot use its government clients to shield itself from litigation, a US appeals court ruled on Monday, a decision that allows

In a major ransomware bust US and European authorities on Monday announced separate but related indictments and arrests linked to extortionware attacks on IT service

In brief A consortium of private equity types have stumped up $12bn in cash to acquire what’s left of McAfee the company plus another couple

In brief A consortium of private equity types have stumped up $12bn in cash to acquire what’s left of McAfee the company plus another couple

Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 research team has said criminals using tools accompanied by Chinese instructions gained access to high-interest networks and stole passwords after

You’re not the only one looking forward to the big holiday sales like Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Hackers are too. As people flock to

Miscreants have hijacked the systems of Angling Direct, diverting traffic from its websites to Pornhub and threatening to wipe its internal data. The London Stock

Public reports of computer-linked crimes are soaring thanks to a huge rise in data breaches, even as prosecutions against Computer Misuse Act offenders slump. The

McAfee Enterprise and FireEye recently released its 2022 Threat Predictions. In this blog, we take a deeper dive into a Game of Thrones power struggle

If you hadn’t heard of Telegram till 2021 then you wouldn’t be alone. This relatively unknown messaging and social media platform has risen from relative

If you pick up your teen’s phone on any given day, chances are the next stop you make will be Google. That’s because, if you’re

A Register reader triggered a kerfuffle for Samsung after asking the electronics biz if he could disable large and intrusive adverts splattered across his new

The US Supreme Court this week refused [PDF] to hear a case that would have forced the country’s hush-hush Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) to

US authorities are dangling a $10m reward for information on the DarkSide gang, while Interpol says half a dozen people were arrested in Ukraine on

Mystery surrounds the Labour Party ransomware attack, with former party members who left years ago saying their data was caught up in the hack –

China’s Ministry of State Security released details this week of three alleged security breaches that saw sensitive data illegally transferred abroad. State-sponsored Xinhua News Agency

Beyond the vulnerability in the Android kernel, the monthly round of security patches plugs another 38 security loopholes Google has released its monthly round of