In the U.S., the Biden administration and Western allies have formally blamed China for a massive hack of Microsoft Exchange email server software and asserted that criminal hackers associated with the Chinese government have carried out ransomware and other illicit cyber operations.
A new mercenary hacker group tracked as CostaRicto by BlackBerry researchers is selling its services to entities requiring APT-level hacking expertise in cyber-espionage campaigns
Twitter is experiencing a widespread security breach, resulting in a number of high profile accounts encouraging their followers to send Bitcoin to an unknown account.
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Equifax will pay up to $700 million to settle with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and others over the 2017 data breach that exposed the private data of nearly 150 million people.
Citrix is cooperating with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to investigate a major data breach of the company's internal network, where hackers may have accessed and downloaded business documents, though the full extent is not yet known.
Last month, Facebook revealed that the accounts of nearly 50 million users had been breached in another security incident at the social network. The company has announced Friday further details about the attack that exploited this vulnerability.
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We reported Thursday how an Australian teenager pleaded guilty to hacking into Apple's servers after the company notified authorities of the intrusion. Apple has issued a press statement Friday confirming that no personal customer data was exposed or compromised in the incident.
The National Lottery is advising all 10.5million people with online accounts to change their passwords following a security breach that happened days before tonight's £14million Euromillions draw. Camelot, the lottery operator, said hackers had made attempts to access accounts and that limited information may have been viewed.
A Coinhive user has allegedly hacked the BlackBerry Mobile website to mine Monero coins before the scam was identified and details published on Reddit.
Three hackers have pleaded guilty to their role in developing, spreading and using Mirai malware botnet to conduct large-scale Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks on some of the Internet’s most popular websites...
Uber has confirmed that the company concealed a hack in 2016 that affected 57 million customers and drivers, and paid hackers $100,000 (£75,000) to delete the data.
Equifax is being sued by the city of San Francisco. City Attorney Dennis Herrera has filed a lawsuit in San Francisco Superior Court for “failing to protect the personal data of more than 15 million Californians,”.
Credit rating company Equifax has revealed today that its databases had been hacked. In a statement, the company confessed that hackers managed to get access to some of its internal data in mid-May.
A group of hackers have discovered, and used, an Instagram bug this week to scrape the phone numbers and email addresses of six million Instagram accounts. They are now selling that information online.
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Facebook users are currently being targeted by a new scam that installs software onto their computers to steal sensitive information, including usernames, passwords and financial details.
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A team of Chinese hackers hacked the Google Pixel alongside Apple Safari and Adobe Flash at the PwnFest hacking competition in Seoul on Friday.
At the BlackBerry Security Summit Tuesday, BlackBerry showed off hacking a kettle and offered attendees tips on how to prevent this happening to them.
Andrew Brandt, a security researcher at Blue Coat, has revealed a new ransomware targeting older Android devices delivered through an exploit kit called Towelroot.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has officially ended legal action against Apple in the month-long encryption feud between the the tech giant and the FBI.
A major security vulnerability has been discovered which could potentially leave hundreds of thousands of devices, apps and services vulnerable to attacks.
TalkTalk is offering all its customers a free upgrade to compensate for the recent cyber attack, in which thousands of people's personal data was leaked online.
Mobile security research firm, Check Point, has revealed a new bug in messaging service, WhatsApp. The bug appears to affect only WhatsApp Web has the potential to allow ransomware and malicious apps on your device.
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US security firm Zscaler has discovered a malicious Android app that held people to ransom.
"Adult Player" appeared to offer porn, but secretly took pictures of users with the phone's camera.
The UK's data watchdog is "making enquiries" after Carphone Warehouse admitted being victim of a cyber-attack. The attack was discovered on Wednesday, and details were released on Saturday.
Details of up to 2.4 million Carphone Warehouse customers may have been accessed in a cyber-attack.
Tesla has issued a software update for its model S car after two researchers found a way to subvert its onboard systems.
Internet users could be affected by exploits that throw websites offline. According to a security firm, hackers are exploiting a serious flaw in the internet's architecture. The bug targets systems which convert URLs into IP addresses.
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As many as 600 million Samsung mobile devices could be at risk from attackers due to a vulnerability in default keyboard software, a security researcher has discovered.
Thousands and thousands of websites had been left vulnerable to hackers for more than a decade due to a former U.S. government policy, according to cybersecurity researchers.
Uber announced Friday that thousands of Uber driver names and driver's license numbers may be in the hands of an unauthorized third party due to a data breach that occurred last year.
While the North Korean government has been blamed for the attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment's network, Russian hackers also breached Sony's network last fall and continued to have at-will access well into January 2015.
As is being widely reported in the press, Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) experienced a significant system disruption on Monday, November 24, 2014.
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Snapsaved, a website which allows SnapChat users to save their images, have admitted that hackers have breached its servers and...
Home Depot confirmed Monday afternoon that its payment data systems have been breached. The confirmation comes less than a week...
Apple has launched an investigation into how nude photographs of over a hundred celebrities were leaked online late last week, after claims a hack on their iCloud accounts was to blame.
Community Health Systems, which operates 206 hospitals across the United States, has announced that hackers recently broke into its computers...
According to Hold Security – a US firm specialising in discovering breaches, a Russian group has hacked 1.2 billion usernames...
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Insurance giant Aviva UK were last month hit by an attack based on the Heartbleed exploit that allowed hackers to...
eBay said beginning later today it will be asking eBay users to change their passwords because of a cyberattack that...
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Recently we reported on the known vulnerabilities in Snapchat and Anonymous hackers have claimed to use the reported Snapchat API...