The problems facing Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab have increased, with the European Parliament passing a motion on cyber security wherein it referred to Kaspersky Lab's software as having been confirmed to be malicious. It did not provide any source for this claim.

The leader of a group that used malware to steal money from more than 100 financial institutions over nearly five years has been arrested in Spain.

Security firm Bitdefender has released a tool for decrypting files that have been encrypted by the Gandcrab ransomware that attacks Windows computers.