Iran is responsible for emails sent to Democratic voters in multiple states aimed at intimidating the recipients into voting for President Donald Trump, U.S. officials said Wednesday night in calling out both Tehran and Russia for activities meant to interfere in the upcoming presidential election.

VMware this week informed customers that it has patched several vulnerabilities in its ESXi, Workstation, Fusion and NSX-T products, including a critical flaw that allows arbitrary code execution.

The critical vulnerability, identified as CVE-2020-3992, has been described as a use-after-free issue that affects the OpenSLP service in ESXi.

The Internet of Things Security Foundation (IoTSF), an effort aimed at improving the security of IoT, has launched an online platform designed to make the reporting of vulnerabilities in IoT devices easier.

Most of the servers associated with the TrickBot botnet have been taken down following the technical and legal effort announced last week, Microsoft says.

The Kremlin on Tuesday denied that Russian military intelligence was behind cyber attacks targeting Ukraine's power grid, the 2017 French election and the 2018 Winter Olympic Games.

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Adobe on Tuesday announced that it has released security updates for 10 of its products, patching a total of 20 vulnerabilities.