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Hacktivists have claimed responsibility for taking down the public infrastructure of the popular Linux Ubuntu operating system distribution, as well as Canonical, the company that develops…
Hackers are actively exploiting a bug in cPanel, which is used by millions of websites
Security researchers are sounding the alarm over a recently discovered vulnerability in the widely used cPanel and WebHost Manager (WHM) web server management software. The flaw…
Sri Lanka reveals another missing payment, days after hackers stole $2.5 million from its finance ministry
Sri Lanka said on Tuesday that a payment of about $625,000 (about 199.7 million Sri Lankan rupees) to the US Postal Service has been missing for…
US energy technology company Itron has confirmed that it was cyberattacked in mid-April and that hackers had gained access to some of its systems. In a…
Netherlands-based cosmetics giant Rituals has confirmed a data breach affecting customers’ personal details after hackers stole reams of data from its member database. The company disclosed…
Cloud hosting giant Vercel this weekend said hackers had breached its internal systems and accessed customer data. The hackers claimed to have stolen sensitive customer credentials…
Mastodon’s flagship server was hit by a distributed denial-of-service attack on Monday, the social networking software maker said, rendering the app unusable at times. Much of…
Sweden blames Russian hackers for attempted ‘catastrophic’ cyberattack on thermal plant
The Swedish government said hackers linked to Russia tried to disrupt operations at one of the country’s thermal power plants last year. Sweden said that while…
Adobe is patching a vulnerability in its flagship document readers, Acrobat DC, Reader DC and Acrobat 2024, that hackers have been actively exploiting for at least…
Someone planted backdoors in dozens of WordPress plugins used on thousands of websites
Dozens of plugins for the widely used open source blogging software WordPress are now offline after a backdoor was discovered in them, used to push malicious…