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Facebook says up to 87 million people may have had their personal details transferred to Cambridge Analytica, a voter-profiling company that denies the data powered digital ad targeting for President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign.

The figure exceeds the 60 million estimate from a whistleblower who worked as a data scientist at Cambridge Analytica. It is also the first estimate provided by Facebook since the scandal erupted after exposés in The Observer and The New York Times last month.

About 70 million of the users possibly affected are in the U.S., with the remainder in Australia, the U.K., the Philippines, Indonesia, Mexico, Canada, India, Brazil and Vietnam. That could open up Facebook to new probes from regulators in addition to...

One year ago, a malicious program for Mac surfaced nicknamed Fruitfly. The malware was an oddball in the context of modern malware: It used Perl, a programming language first developed in the late 1980s.

Fruitfly, experts say, appeared to be designed to spy on Apple Macs. As security experts began analyzing Fruitfly, it turns out that law enforcement was on the heels of its author (see Mac Malware Targets Biomedical Institutions).

The Justice Department on Wednesday announced the indictment of Phillip R. Durachinsky, 28, of North Royalton, Ohio. He was charged with 16 counts in federal court, including violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, plus wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, illegal wiretapping and child pornography.

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Security researchers are claiming at least a temporary victory over an enormously productive malware distribution scheme that shuffled as many as 2 million users a day from legitimate websites to malware.

The networked, dubbed EITest, leveraged compromised websites to direct users to ransomware, tech support schemes and exploit kits. EITest, noticed as far back as 2011, had been dubbed the "king of traffic distribution."

Malware researcher Kafeine, who works for Proofpoint, writes that users who encountered a website tampered with by EITest are now being redirected to a sinkhole set up by researchers. The sinkhole, which is a non-malicious domain, became active on March 15.

"We are now receiving the traffic from the backdoors on the...