In recent years the group has compromised organizations in the U.S., Europe, and Japan.

For Intel, the Spectre and Meltdown saga drove home the fact that “we weren’t making it easy on our customers to take what we were giving them and actually get it out to people,” Intel's Audrey Plonk told CyberScoop.

Brazil's underground digital bazaar is host to opportunistic "pirates," some who are quite skilled, Recorded Future says.

The research highlights the extent to which routers can be a gateway for hackers into networked homes.

The discovery shows how good source code dies hard, and that tracking its evolution can be a very long game for researchers.

The Elfin group, a significant component of Tehran's hacking arsenal, uses a trojan to wipe victim hard drives.