DNC officials and Lookout believed a spoofed site was built to harvest authentication details for the Democratic voter database.

In a probable quest to build a botnet, someone is hacking Instagram accounts, deleting handles, avatars and personal details, and linking them to a new email address.

A hacker has compromised Reddit’s systems and was able to make away with email addresses and account credentials.

The nation’s largest blood test processor detected “suspicious activity” on its network this past weekend.

The thief also had a second dataset, including the M1 Abrams maintenance manual, a tank platoon training course, a crew survival course and documentation on improvised explosive device (IED) mitigation tactics.

A PoC shows how ships could be hacked and fooled into changing direction – all due to simple security issues.

How can we keep up with the social media threat landscape as it grows to include more malware, hacks and scams? We discuss on the latest Threatpost podcast.

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

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including Pwn2Own 2017, Microsoft’s silence around February’s Patch Tuesday, and a nasty SAP bug.

Attackers managed to hijack the website of the Linux Mint operating system to push a backdoored ISO image of the software to users over the weekend. The developers behind the software, one of, if not the most popular Linux distribution, are unsure what the hackers are aiming to achieve by the move but acknowledge that...