The U.S. government and several other countries have been grappling with a key question over the last year: Should ransomware payments be banned, with select waivers available for special situations?

The National Security Agency has been directed to cut potentially thousands of civilian employees as part of the Trump administration’s push to reduce the size of the federal government, according to ...

Hundreds of millions of Dell desktops, laptops, notebooks, and tablets will need to update their Dell DBUtil driver to fix a 12-year-old vulnerability that exposes systems to attacks. The bug, tracked ...

Harrods, the luxury department store in London, has become the latest U.K. retailer to announce detecting an attempted cyberattack following similar announcements by Marks & Spencer and the Co-op. In ...

SAN FRANCISCO — North Korea’s ability to surreptitiously slip thousands of its workers into Fortune 500 companies was a main focus for cybersecurity professionals at this year’s RSA Conference.

The number of unreported bugs exploited by criminals, nation states and commercial vendors fell in 2024, but hackers are increasingly targeting vulnerabilities in security software and appliances to ...

SAN FRANCISCO — U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem urged Congress on Tuesday to reauthorize a 10-year-old law that encourages businesses to share information about ongoing cybersecurity ...

SAN FRANCISCO — The discovery that Chinese state-backed hackers had burrowed into U.S. critical infrastructure with the aim of causing mass disruption continues to reverberate nearly two years after ...

Polish police dismantled an international cybercrime group accused of defrauding dozens of victims out of nearly $665,000, authorities said Tuesday. Nine people were detained in connection with the ...

A major Japanese logistics provider confirmed this week that it had fallen victim to a ransomware attack, disrupting some of its systems. The Tokyo-based Kintetsu World Express (KWE), which offers air ...

The acting director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency told employees on Wednesday that it is unclear when a plan to reduce and restructure the agency’s workforce will be ...

The Co-op retail chain in the United Kingdom announced on Wednesday it had proactively shut down part of its IT systems following an attempted cyberattack, which testimony from staff suggested may ...