Nicholas Fearn

As many as 142 million people may have lost personal information in a previously reported data breach at the MGM Resorts casino-and-hotel company.

Wells Fargo has asked employees to stop using TikTok on company-owned phones due to security worries.

Flaws in TP-Link's mobile app for its Kasa smart-home devices could let hackers spy on you and take over your accounts.

Researchers warn of deadly consequences after finding flaws in apps that power smartwatches used by the elderly.

Cybercrooks are selling or giving away 15 billion usernames and passwords on underground marketplaces, researchers say.

Another 11 apps in Google Play were infected with the notorious Joker malware to sign users up for premium subscriptions.

More potentially dangerous adware has been found embedded in budget Android phones offered at low cost through the U.S. Lifeline Assistance program.

Security researchers found the Cerberus banking Trojan hiding in a legitimate Android currency-converter app, but not before it had been downloaded 10,000 times from the Google Play store.

A new gang of online credit-card thieves has made millions by infecting the websites of nearly 600 online retailers.

A significant number of new Android malware strains can't be removed by normal means, and Kaspersky warns that pre-installed adware only increases the risks of infection.

New Mac ransomware making the rounds gives victims 72 hours to cough up $50 — and may steal their files anyway.

For more than a year, North Korean state-sponsored hackers have hacked into e-commerce websites worldwide to steal shoppers' credit-card numbers, researchers say.

Fast-growing fitness firm V Shred may have exposed the personal information of nearly 100,000 customers, trainers and others -- and much of this data is still online for anyone to access.

LinkedIn admitted that, like TikTok, its iOS app was copying data from the clipboards of iPhone and iPad users.

Personal data of nearly 500,000 BMW, Mercedes, Hyundai and SEAT car owners appears to have been stolen from a UK customer-service call centre and is now being sold on the dark web.

The U.S. will no longer export 'sensitive defense technologies' to Hong Kong now that a new security law imposed by China drastically curtails the city-state's autonomy from Beijing.

Chinese hackers are using four malware tools to spy on minority groups like the Uyghurs, according to new research.

The FakeSpy Android malware now comes embedded in phony postal-service apps from all over the world.

At least 25 malicious Android apps that amassed millions of downloads were designed to steal Facebook login credentials.

User information stolen from 14 different data breaches in 2020 is being sold to the highest bidder online.

Online vandals are brute-forcing Roblox passwords to hijack accounts and spread pro-Trump messages.

The University of California, San Francisco paid $1.14 million to criminals to unlock files encrypted by ransomware.

An unsecured database posted online by Canadian study-aid service OneClass exposed the personal information of more than 1 million North American students, researchers said.

The UK's 1990 Computer Misuse Act is way out of date, criminalises routine behaviour and puts national and personal security at risk, cybersecurity experts say.

Now that Sony has instituted its first bug-bounty program, up to $50,000 or more awaits successful bug hunters who find security flaws in the PS4 console.