Hackers sponsored by Russia and North Korea are targeting COVID-19 researchers
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Hackers sponsored by the Russian and North Korean governments have been targeting companies directly i...Read More
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Trickbot—the for-hire botnet Microsoft attacked—is scrambling to stay alive
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Ars Technica ) Operators of Trickbot—a for-hire botnet that has infected more than 1 million devices...Read More
FBI/DHS: Government election systems face threat from active Zerologon exploits
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) The FBI and the cybersecurity arm of the Department of Homeland Security said they have detected hacke...Read More
Apple pays $288,000 to white-hat hackers who had run of company’s network
Enlarge (credit: Nick Wright. Used by permission.) For months, Apple’s corporate network was at risk of hacks that could have stolen ...Read More
DHS warns that Emotet malware is one of the most prevalent threats today
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images ) The malware known as Emotet has emerged as “one of the most prevalent ongoing threats” as it increasi...Read More
Boom! Hacked page on mobile phone website is stealing customers’ card data
Enlarge / Computer hacker character stealing money online. Vector flat cartoon illustration (credit: GettyImages ) If you’re in the ...Read More
Companies can track your phone’s movements to target ads
Enlarge (credit: Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images) Google and Apple have taken steps this year they say will help users shield t...Read More
Big tech companies want to help get you back in the office
Enlarge / Office staff respecting social distancing during a meeting. Group of business men and women having a meeting in office during...Read More
A single text is all it took to unleash code-execution worm in Cisco Jabber
Enlarge (credit: Cisco ) Until Wednesday, a single text message sent through Cisco’s Jabber collaboration application was all it took...Read More
Hackers are exploiting a critical flaw affecting >350,000 WordPress sites
Enlarge (credit: StickerGiant / Flickr ) Hackers are actively exploiting a vulnerability that allows them to execute commands and mal...Read More
Russian tourist offered employee $1 million to cripple Tesla with malware
Enlarge (credit: Tesla) Tesla’s Nevada Gigafactory was the target of a concerted plot to cripple the company’s network with malware, ...Read More
“DeathStalker” hackers are (likely) older and more prolific than we thought
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images ) In 2018, researchers from security firm Kaspersky Lab began tracking “DeathStalker,” their name for a...Read More
NSA and FBI warn that new Linux malware threatens national security
Enlarge (credit: Suse ) The FBI and NSA have issued a joint report warning that Russian state hackers are using a previously unknown ...Read More
Chinese hackers have pillaged Taiwan’s semiconductor industry
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images ) Taiwan has faced existential conflict with China for its entire existence and has been targeted by Ch...Read More
More than 20GB of Intel source code and proprietary data dumped online
Enlarge (credit: Tillie Kottman ) Intel is investigating the purported leak of more than 20 gigabytes of its proprietary data and sou...Read More
Twitter hackers used “phone spear phishing” in mass account takeover
Enlarge (credit: Tom Raftery ) The hackers behind this month’s epic Twitter breach targeted a small number of employees through a “ph...Read More
Hackers obtained Twitter DMs for 36 high-profile account holders
Enlarge (credit: Kevin Krejci ) Hackers accessed direct messages for 36 high-profile account holders in last week’s epic compromise o...Read More
An embattled group of leakers picks up the WikiLeaks mantle
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) For the past year, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has sat in a London jail awaiting extradition to t...Read More
Twitter terminates DDoSecrets and falsely claims it may infect visitors
Enlarge (credit: Cory Doctorow / Flickr ) Four days after leak publisher DDoSecrets circulated private documents from more than 200 l...Read More
Deepfakes aren’t very good—nor are the tools to detect them
Enlarge / A comparison of an original and deepfake video of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. (credit: The Washington Post | Elyse Samuels/...Read More
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