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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…
The US government is warning that Iranian-backed hackers are escalating their tactics by targeting US critical infrastructure systems with the aim of causing disruption. In a…
North Korea’s hijacking of one of the most widely used open source projects on the Web was likely weeks in the making
A cyberattack in North Korea that last Monday briefly seized one of the most widely used open source projects on the Web took weeks to carry…