Security researchers believe the 'highly sophisticated' cybergang maybe funded by an organised crime syndicate.
The data breaches reportedly occurred in 2015, at the height of China-US cybersecurity tensions.
A whole host of compromised home routers were found, 'over 99% of which belonged to TalkTalk'.
Met says it cannot give a date for the completion of upgrade programme.
Seven of the incidents were ransomware attacks, the UK government revealed.
Watson is geared up to assist 40 organisations to detect cybercrime in healthcare, finance and other areas.
Researchers noted that the campaign targeted internet users visiting popular news sites.
The former IT-staffer is facing up to 25 years jail for insider trading ploy.
The cyberattack is believed to have occurred in October and allegedly involves theft of user email addresses.
Most of the biggest hacks that will happen in 2017 are 'already under way.'
All emails were spoofed to look like official emails from the SFA accounts department.
According to the National Crime Agency, sextortion scams have resulted in 4 deaths over the year.
Security experts expose a new vulnerability to 'mark Red Star's anniversary leak'.
Security researchers have uncovered a new botnet waging daily, massive attacks.
Hackers allegedly behind a new IoT botnet created from the Mirai malware claimed responsibility for the attack.
The joint operation successfully sinkholed around 800,000 domain strong botnet infrastructure.
In 2012, Shamoon was responsible for destroying nearly 35,000 computers at oil firm Saudi Aramco.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange slammed the 'cowardly' German government.
The website was offline for roughly four hours on 1 December.
Bruno Kahl says the pressure on public discourse and democracy is 'unacceptable'.
Europol stressed that no operations are believed to have been put in jeopardy.
It is not believed that bank details were stolen or core databases accessed.