Items tagged with Hackers
Russian professional basketball player Daniil Kasatkin, known for his moves on the court, has found himself in an entirely different kind of court facing accusations of being a ransomware negotiator. The 26-year-old, who once graced the...
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Food retail giant Ahold Delhaize, parent company of well-known American brands like Food Lion, Stop & Shop, Giant Food, and Hannaford, has confirmed a significant data breach impacting over 2.24 million individuals. The incident, stemming...
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The long-held belief that MacBooks are impervious to malware has been overwhelmingly debunked, and that's probably stale by now. We've published several stories on malware infestations targeting macOS. The new story here, sedulously baked...
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A recent report of a highly sophisticated phishing attack exploiting Google services targeting a lead developer at Ethereum Foundation, Nick Johnson, proves that internet users need to take more precautions to protect themselves from...
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Hertz Corporation has warned about an alarming data breach that might have exposed sensitive customer data to hackers. The rental car company has provided details of the breach, the measures it has taken, and what potentially affected...
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Black hat hackers are usually intelligent folks channeling their energy in the wrong direction that use sophisticated techniques to exploit vulnerabilities and cause security breaches. Most tech companies, however, don't simply wait and...
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Researchers have uncovered a proprietary undocumented command in Chinese manufacturer Espressif's ESP32 chips that could be exploited, to the potential detriment of millions of users.
The ESP32 chip allows connectivity through Wifi or...
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The United States Secret Service and United States Department of State are on the hunt for Belarusian national Volodymyr Iuriyovych Kadariya, who is wanted in connection with cybercrimes pertaining to the Angler Exploit Kit, and the...
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Yet another leak of stolen data has made its way to Breach Forums, a popular site for bad actors who traffic in this kind of data theft. The data originates from the breach of National Public Data, which is a service that gathers...
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A significant breach of The New York Time's GitHub account and its repository data has apparently been stolen, followed by a massive file dump of things like internal source code and other data posted to the controversial 4Chan board. The...
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Contrary to what some may think, hackers can have scruples and, in some cases, honorable intentions—it's kind of the whole idea behind white hat hacking and events like Pwn2Own. But then there are the kind who wouldn't think twice about...
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An American Express credit card data breach has occurred with hackers obtaining the information from an unnamed third-party merchant processor. No word on how many customers are impacted yet, but the breach has leaked American Express card...
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A massive leak of 26 billion personal records has been exposed by a cybersecurity research team. Big sites and government organization sites like Deezer, Tencent, and Adobe haven't been spared, and we have both bad news and good...
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Popular genetic testing company 23andMe has revealed the possible true impact of its recent October data breach. Contrary to an SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) filing on Friday by the company, the breach is now said to affect 6.9...
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A team of British researchers have found a way to use AI to learn keyboard keystrokes with 95 percent accuracy using nothing but the mics on an iPhone. This spells more trouble in the already complex and increasingly insecure realm of...
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The Linus Tech Tips YouTube channel fell victim to hackers overnight, with the attackers using it to promote a fake crypto giveaway. During the time the channel was being recovered, users attempting to view the channel encountered a...
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Pepsi Bottling Ventures (PBV) has suffered a major data breach, with hackers making off with a trove of sensitive information. The company has begun notifying affected individuals of this incident, but the details remain sparse. According...
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We often report on phishing campaigns involving fraudulent customer support agents who trick victims into giving up sensitive information or installing malware on their systems. However, sometimes threat actors flip this script, instead...
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TA444 is an advanced persistent threat (APT) group believed to be associated with the North Korean government. However, rather than receiving financial backing from its government, the group seems to bring in revenue for the government...
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BIT Mining Limited has published a news release disclosing that the cryptocurrency mining pool run by its subsidiary, BTC.com, suffered a cyberattack earlier this month on December 3. In the course of the attack, threat actors stole...
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Back in August of this year, the password manager LastPass suffered a security breach that resulted in the theft of proprietary technical information and portions of the company’s source code. Hackers then used the stolen information to...
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Back in October, a researcher at the cybersecurity firm Salt Security uncovered multiple security vulnerabilities in the LEGO BrickLink website that could have allowed hackers to hijack users’ accounts and arbitrarily read files on the the...
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