According to the US Department of Justice (DoJ), a Ukrainian national named Mark Sokolovsky pleaded guilty to operating the "Raccoon Infostealer" malware in US federal court.

The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) warns of "Trinity" ransomware attacks on healthcare and public health organizations.

Secureworks has seen a 30 percent year-over-year increase in active ransomware groups despite law enforcement efforts to stop ransomware gangs.

Danish company LEGO recently had its official website compromised on the evening of Oct. 4 to promote a cryptocurrency scam.

Hackers recently stole sensitive employee data from a software-as-a-service company, CreditRiskMonitor.com.  CreditRiskMonitor.com advises consumers on trade credit and provides supply chain risk monitoring.

David Hyde of Vanderbilt University weighs in on a major cybersecurity breach targeting U.S. telecommunications firms, with potential ties to Chinese state-sponsored hackers.

US money transfer giant MoneyGram has recently confirmed to customers that their personal information (PII) may have been stolen in a data breach incident.  The firm posted a notice on its website yesterday.

According to Europol, police investigators from across the globe joined forces recently in a digital operation to identify human trafficking suspects and victims.

Aqua Security researchers are warning of a new malware family named "perfctl" that targets Linux systems. It establishes persistent access and hijacks resources to conduct cryptocurrency mining.

Qualcomm has released security patches to address a zero-day vulnerability in the Digital Signal Processor (DSP) service, which affects dozens of chipsets.

The popular "LiteSpeed Cache" WordPress plug-in, installed over 6 million times, is impacted by a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) flaw that allows attackers to escalate privileges and install malicious code.

Researchers at NSFOCUS discovered a new botnet malware family named "Gorilla," also known as "GorillaBot," which is based on leaked "Mirai" source code.