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August saw a significant increase in cyber attacks involving the Ramnit banking trojan. Ramnit has doubled its global impact in recent months after a large scale campaign that has been converting victim’s machines into malicious proxy servers.

Two in five industrial control systems (ICS) computers were attacked by malicious software at least once in the first half of 2018.

The Ransom Warrior ransomware may have been tamed for good after cyber security researchers developed a decryption tool to unlock affected machines.

Cyber criminals are exploiting security software flaws that are almost a decade old, a new report has found.

Two Russian nationals have been named as the key suspects in the Salisbury novichok poisoning incident from March this year.

Malware became more versatile in the first half of this year, according to a report on botnet activity by Kaspersky Lab.

Google has been accused of “creating an unnecessary risk for Android users to score cheap PR points” after revealing how an app used to install hit game Fortnite could be compromised to load malware.

Senior cyber security figures from Microsoft, Vodafone and ITV are amongst the ten people appointed to the steering committee for BAE Systems’ new cyber security forum and lobbying group.

Almost a quarter of consumers (23 per cent) would prefer to be caught naked in public than be without their digital device, according to a new study highlighting how much people depend on their tech today.

BAE Systems has been tasked with developing tools capable of detecting and analysing cyber threats that will help protect extremely large enterprise networks.

More veterans are set to embark on a new career in cyber security after the Ministry of Defence teamed up with an innovative start-up.

Kaspersky Internet Security faced down numerous ‘in-the-wild’ financial malware and botnet tests from the last three quarters of 2017 and the first quarter of 2018 to achieve certification.

The UK is leading by example in terms of having insurance in place to mitigate against cyber attacks, a new Europe-wide survey has revealed.

Amazon’s Echo digital assistant can be hacked to access other Echos on the same wireless network and then turn them into bugging devices, TheRegister.co.uk reports.

Mobile banking trojan modifications have reached an all-time high, making them one of the biggest cyber headaches in 2018.

The humble fax machine can be targeted and exploited by cyber criminals to obtain sensitive data or spread malware across an organisation, new research suggests.

More than 400 industrial organisations in Russia have been targeted in a new wave of financial spear-phishing emails disguised as legitimate accounting letters.

A newly discovered attack in WhatsApp allows hackers to impersonate users and potentially send fake messages.

Cisco has acquired Michigan-based Duo Security for $2.35 billion (£1.8 billion) in cash as it pushes further into the cyber security sector.