Items tagged with Hackers
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Victor Awogbemila - Sat, Sep 13, 2025
Oxford University Computer Science Alumni and Artificial Intelligence researcher, Eito Miyamura, revealed that his team was able to trick ChatGPT into divulging sensitive email data, using some relatively simple methods. They were able to...
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Alan Velasco - Fri, Sep 05, 2025
Security researchers at ESET have discovered a new threat actor in the constantly evolving cybersecurity space. The hacker group, dubbed GhostRedirector, has been attacking Windows servers using novel, custom tools. Apparently, this...
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Victor Awogbemila - Wed, Sep 03, 2025
Armis Lab, an intelligence division at cybersecurity firm Armis, has identified 10 security flaws in Copeland software that could allow hackers to gain unauthorized access to critical systems within supermarkets and cold storage...
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Alan Velasco - Fri, Aug 22, 2025
Update, 8/23/25, 1:45 PM ET: The company that makes the Flipper Zero has released a blog post in response to recent stories regarding stolen vehicles. The blog post states that, "the so-called hacker firmwares for Flipper Zero don’t add anything new — they just reuse techniques documented...
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Victor Awogbemila - Mon, Aug 04, 2025
Within the last month, the Cloudflare Email Security team has observed and tracked some sophisticated cyberattacks in which malicious actors mask phishing links by exploiting link wrapping features on email services.
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Victor Awogbemila - Mon, Jul 28, 2025
Allianz Life, an insurance company based in the U.S. has disclosed that a large-scale attack on its security infrastructure has resulted in a data breach that impacted about 1.4 million customers.
The company stated that malicious...
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Aaron Leong - Fri, Jul 11, 2025
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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Aaron Leong - Fri, Jun 27, 2025
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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Victor Awogbemila - Thu, Jun 19, 2025
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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Victor Awogbemila - Thu, Apr 17, 2025
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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Victor Awogbemila - Wed, Apr 16, 2025
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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Victor Awogbemila - Tue, Mar 25, 2025
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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Victor Awogbemila - Mon, Mar 10, 2025
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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Paul Lilly - Fri, Aug 30, 2024
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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Alan Velasco - Tue, Aug 13, 2024
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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Aaron Leong - Mon, Jun 10, 2024
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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Paul Lilly - Fri, Apr 05, 2024
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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Aaron Leong - Tue, Mar 05, 2024
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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Aaron Leong - Tue, Jan 23, 2024
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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Aaron Leong - Wed, Dec 06, 2023
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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Aaron Leong - Mon, Aug 07, 2023
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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Tim Sweezy - Thu, Mar 23, 2023
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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