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US uncovers “Swiss Army knife” for hacking industrial control systems

Enlarge (credit: cravetiger | Getty Images) Malware designed to target industrial control systems like power grids, factories, water utilities, and oil refineries represents a rare species of digital badness. So when the United…

Microsoft’s tactics to win cloud battle lead to new antitrust scrutiny

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) Microsoft has escaped the recent backlash against the power and wealth of the biggest US tech companies. Despite a stock market value that has soared to…

Preparing for Armageddon: How Ukraine battles Russian hackers

Enlarge (credit: gwengoat | Getty Images) For years, a small and disparate Ukrainian team including IT experts, intelligence officers, and a criminal prosecutor has kept a wary eye on a group of hackers…

Russia’s Sandworm hackers attempted a third blackout in Ukraine

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Sundry Photography) More than half a decade has passed since the notorious Russian hackers known as Sandworm targeted an electrical transmission station north of Kyiv a week before…

Trend says hackers have weaponized SpringShell to install Mirai malware

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Researchers on Friday said that hackers are exploiting the recently discovered SpringShell vulnerability to successfully infect vulnerable Internet of Things devices with Mirai, an open source piece of malware…

Dealership markups are getting crazy, so this site is tracking them

Enlarge / These days, it's hard to buy a new vehicle without giving the dealer an extra wad of cash. (credit: Thitiphat Khuankaew / EyeEm / Getty Images) If there's anything harder to…

Ransomware sent North Carolina A&T University scrambling to restore services

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) North Carolina A&T State University, the largest historically black college in the US, University was recently struck by a ransomware Group called ALPHV, sending university staff into a scramble…

Intel suspends all operations in Russia “effective immediately”

Enlarge (credit: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Intel, one of the world's largest semiconductor companies, is suspending business operations in Russia "effective immediately," the company announced on Tuesday. "Intel continues to join…

Companies were slow to remove Russian spies’ malware, so FBI did it for them

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) The FBI remotely accessed and disinfected US-located devices running a powerful new strain of Russian state botnet malware, federal authorities said Wednesday. Those authorities added that the Kremlin was…

WatchGuard failed to explicitly disclose critical flaw exploited by Russian hackers

Enlarge Security vendor WatchGuard quietly fixed a critical vulnerability in a line of its firewall devices and didn’t explicitly disclose the flaw until Wednesday, following revelations hackers from Russia’s military apparatus exploited it…