A battery-saving app enables attackers to snatch text messages and read sensitive log data – but it also holds true to its advertising.

A rapidly swelling botnet of Twitter accounts advertising “adult dating”-themed scam websites has at least 80,000 nodes to date.

The use of automated bots is becoming more prevalent for novice attackers as tools become more available, researchers found.

Popular collaboration and communication firm Slack rushed to plugged a security hole in its platform Thursday that was leaking some of its users’ private chats and files for anyone to access. Slack, a leading tool used by companies to communicate internally, was alerted by security firm Detectify Labs who discovered Slack users were unwittingly sharing sensitive company...