Fancy Bear hacker group ramped up zero-day attacks before Microsoft, Adobe released patches
The hacker group sent out spear-phishing emails to various international governments.
National Crime Agency website briefly down after hackers launch DDoS attack
At the time of writing, the NCA website kept going offline intermittently.
Android banking Trojan used Chrome browser vulnerability to infect over 300,000 devices in 2 months
The threat actors operating the malware appear to be only targeting smartphones with a Russian-language interface.
Hackers leave Finnish residents cold after DDoS attack knocks out heating systems
The attack is believed to have lasted for a week, starting in late October and ending on 3 November.
Hacker claims on 4chan he targeted pro-Clinton phone lines a day before US election
The attack also reportedly affected Republican phone lines.
Hacker-for-hire claims shutting down websites of Russian banks on Election Day
One of the four targeted banks' websites remained offline at 5am GMT on 9 November.
Julian Assange defends WikiLeaks, denies seeking to wreck Clinton campaign
WikiLeaks urged its supporters to download 'insurance' files for 'safekeeping'.
Google patches Gmail verification flaw that allowed attackers to take control of user accounts
The bug was disclosed to Google on 20 October.
FBI used malware like 'a grenade' to hack TorMail users, unsealed court documents show
The agency deployed a network investigative technique, which was designed to grab the real IP addresses of the users.
Was the Twitter outage really related to the DDoS attack on WikiLeaks? Microblogging site says no
A brief Twitter outage saw conspiracy theories swirl among users.
Google will display US election results the moment polls close
Google also said YouTube will live-stream election results coverage from various news organisations.
Julian Assange claims Libya was Hillary Clinton's war, FBI out for payback over her resistance
WikiLeaks has released the 30th batch of Podesta emails, bringing the total number of published documents to over 47,000.
UK police provided surveillance tools and support to the Competition and Markets Authority – report
Documents show the CMA was provided support with the understanding that specific details about police's surveillance technology would be kept secret.
Democratic National Committee tells FBI it has evidence its headquarters was bugged – report
A private firm was allegedly hired to conduct an electronic sweep following the DNC hack.
WhatsApp, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube blocked in Turkey as top pro-Kurdish leaders detained
Internet monitoring group says restrictions were caused by slowing down the internet connection to the sites.
Julian Assange predicts Donald Trump will not be allowed to win US elections
Assange also claimed that the Clinton Foundation and Isis funded by the same source.
FBI launches internal probe into its own Twitter account following mysterious slew of controversial tweets
The FBI's records account, which was dormant for over a year, posted a series of controversial tweets about Trump and Bill Clinton.
Clinton supporters targeted by text to vote scam ahead of Election Day
Scam posts telling voters to 'avoid the lines' on Election Day by opting to vote by text were circulating on Twitter.
US and UK hit by another internet outage that affected services for hours
Level 3 confirmed that the outage was caused by a 'configuration error' and that services are back up.
Pro-Isis hackers claim shutting down Telegram channel of Raqqa-based Syrian activist group
The hackers abused Telegram's reporting mechanism to shut down the channel.
Julian Assange feels sorry for Hillary Clinton, rules out Russia as WikiLeaks source
WikiLeaks has vowed to publish over 50,000 emails in the run-up to the US elections.
Android Trojan posing as Flash Player targets over 90 major banks across US and Europe
The malware has the ability to bypass SMS-based two-factor authentication.
Edward Snowden cautions reporters after Montreal police spied on journalist by monitoring his iPhone
An internal investigation revealed that the police got warrants to track a La Presse reporter's phone.
Microsoft says Russia-linked Fancy Bear hackers are exploiting Windows zero-day flaws
Previously, several cybersecurity researchers had tied Fancy Bear to the Kremlin and the DNC hack.
WikiLeaks reveals Podesta advised aide to 'dump all those emails' from Clinton private server
WikiLeaks has released its 25th batch of Podesta emails, which contain around 2,500 emails.
Facebook testing Snapchat-style features in its main app
The features are currently being tested out in Ireland.
Teen arrested for iPhone hack that unleashed attack on 911 emergency system
18-year old Meetkumar Hiteshbhai Desai was arrested for flooding the 911 system with emergency calls.
Internet's largest hacking forum removed its DDoS-for-hire section after being linked to Mirai attacks
HackForums administrator made the announcement to axe DDoS services in the wake of the massive US internet outage.
UK Apple users targeted with phishing campaign as the clocks go back
Hackers leveraged daylight saving to send out spam SMS messages to potential victims.
Top 5 cyberthreats that everybody needs to be aware of
IBTimes UK talks to security researchers, ex-FBI and ex-NSA cyber experts to find out about deadly threats in cyberspace.
