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"ISIS came onto the scene very quickly, but they already have arguably the best cyber offensive capability of any extremist movement out there, and it's still early days," Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at F-Secure said. View full story

The hugely popular smartphone messaging service WhatsApp, acquired by Facebook for over $20 billion last year, has reportedly been found to be prone to hijacking, making its hundreds of Millions of users vulnerable to, not just hackers, but also non-technical people. View full story

In one of the more remarkable cybercrime busts in recent memory, twin brothers have been arrested in St Petersburg, Russia, as part of a police operation looking into fraud affecting state-owned Sberbank , the nation’s biggest financial institution, and other major national banks. View full story

Hackers broke into U.S. government computers, possibly compromising the personal data of 4 million current and former federal employees, and investigators were probing whether the culprits were based in China, U.S. officials said on Thursday. View full story

A cyber-spying campaign – dubbed "Grabit" – has successfully stolen 10,000 files from small-to-medium sized businesses. The targeted businesses have been primarily located in Thailand, India, and the US. View full story

The Twitter page of Baltimore's State Attorney was hacked over the weekend according to a spokeswoman from the office. The page was taken down in an attempt to fix the issue. However, the page was still compromised when it was brought back up online. View full story  

When Europol helped coordinate the April takedown of the Beebone botnet, information security expert Raj Samani - who assisted with the takedown - says everyone involved in the operation estimated that the polymorphic botnet was composed of about 12,000 infected systems, and that the majority were based in the United States. "But actually, what we realized was the number of infected hosts were way higher. In fact, we're seeing in our sinkhole somewhere between 30,000...

Ransomware is software which locks you out of your files until a fee is paid to the criminals behind the attack. Checkpoint researcher Natalia Kolesova detailed information about Troldash, a newly-discovered strain. Once it infects a machine, Troldash provides an email address with which to contact the attackers. View full story

Law enforcement officers from the UK, Europe and the US have weighed in on the controversial issue of encryption at Infosecurity Europe 2015 in London. In recent months, Europol director Rob Wainwright, FBI director James Comey, former European Cyber Crime Centre head Troels Oerting and GCHQ director Robert Hannigan have all warned that encrypted communications make it difficult to monitor terror suspects. View full story

Remember the magical Marauder’s Map from the Harry Potter books that reveal the whereabouts of characters as they roam classrooms and the halls of Hogwarts school? A student developer from Cambridge has created a Chrome extension that works similar and also named it Marauder’s Map. The extension that allows you to watch every footstep of your Facebook friends by grabbing location data from Facebook Messenger and rapidly plotting your friends’ locations on a map. View full story