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This article was produced by Olswang LLP, which joined with CMS on 1 May 2017.

  • China has decided to suspend its involvement in a cybersecurity working group with the US after being accused of commercial spying.
  • A recent study found that 61 percent of energy firms view email as the biggest threat vector for cyberattacks via malware, and that hacktivists are seen as posing the biggest threat to energy companies.
  • The United States is preparing to announce first-of-its-kind criminal charges on Monday 26 May against Chinese military officials accused of hacking into private-sector U.S. companies to gain trade secrets, a government official said.
  • Seventeen men have been arrested in the UK as part of a worldwide crackdown on a malicious computer program, BlackShades.
  • Reports of the Stoned Virus hitting the Bitcoin Blockchain, prove to be false.
  • Researchers have discovered previously unreported problems in SNMP on embedded devices where devices such as secondary market home routers and a popular enterprise-grade load balancer are leaking authentication details in plain text.
  • More than a month after the world learned of the epic, headline-grabbing Heartbleed flaw, the severe OpenSSL vulnerability can still be found on hundreds of thousands of servers - and some other not-so-obvious spots - thanks to an inconsistent industry-wide response.
  • Last month Google offered refunds to users who bought a fake antivirus app from Google Play, but the scam seems to be catching on and security researchers have recently identified similar apps in both the Android and Windows Phone app stores.
  • Buggy iTunes 11.2 update opened serious security hole on Apple Macs.
  • An international operation led by the FBI had taken control of the GameOver Zeus botnet, a network of captured computers used to steal millions of dollars from individuals and small businesses around the world.