Companies and individuals in Japan are finding their computers are increasingly targeted by ransomware — programs that bar victims from accessing important files unless they pay money. "Attacks on Japanese businesses have been particularly large in number," said Masakatsu Morii, a professor of information and ...
A man was arrested after injuring seven people with an ax at the main train station in Duesseldorf, Germany in what appeared to be a random attack, police said Thursday. Officers were alerted about an attack shortly before 9 p.m. (2000 GMT), prompting a large-scale ...
Indonesian militants supporting the Islamic State militant group planned to attack a police post on New Year's Eve with machetes and knives, a police spokesman said Monday. The plot was broken up after police arrested two of the would-be attackers who led them to their ...
A black bear got the surprise of its life when it attacked a 63-year-old man who happened to be a high-ranking practitioner of karate, police in Gunma Prefecture said. The man, from Naganohara, was fishing on the nearby Jizo River when what appeared to be ...
French officials on Thursday identified the second man who attacked a Normandy church during morning Mass, saying he's a 19-year-old from eastern France who was spotted last month in Turkey as he supposedly headed to Syria — but who returned to France instead. The prosecutor's ...
A British delivery driver has been convicted of plotting to attack U.S. military personnel in the U.K. A jury on Friday found Junead Khan guilty of preparing an act of terrorism. The 25-year-old's work for a pharmaceutical firm took him past U.S. air bases in ...
Upping its rhetoric a notch, North Korea has warned that it will attack Seoul's presidential palace unless it receives an apology from South Korean President Park Geun-hye for "treason." The warning is the latest threat against Washington and Seoul over joint U.S.-South Korean military drills ...
A machete-wielding man attacked a U.S. tourist couple as they walked along an isolated beach on Grenada, killing the woman, police on the Caribbean island said Tuesday. Jessica Lewis Colker, 39, of Atlanta, was found dead after her husband ran to get help following the ...
Islamist Taliban militants stormed a university in volatile northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing at least 19 people and wounding dozens as the army hunted for any gunmen still holed up on the campus, officials said. A security official said the death toll could rise to ...
France's ambassador to Burkina Faso said Saturday 27 people had been killed in a hotel attack by militant Islamists in the capital Ouagadougou, slightly higher than a death toll of 23 given earlier by the West African nation's president. Ambassador Gilles Thibault also tweeted that ...
The scene had echoes of the Paris attacks: A bustling shopping area shaken by the blasts of suicide bombers and gunfire as onlookers fled in terror. But when Thursday's assault in central Jakarta was over, the death toll was far lower. Of the seven killed, ...
Police in Philadelphia are investigating a tip that members of a radical group may pose a threat to officers following the ambush of a patrolman in his cruiser last week. The police department said Sunday evening that someone approached an officer on the street and ...
