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A ransomware gang has stepped up its attacks on law firms by sometimes sending fake IT workers to victims’ offices, where the crooks steal data directly…

The extensive hacking campaign that was based simply on asking Meta AI’s chatbot to take over a victim’s Instagram account appears to have continued even after…

Instagram has resolved a security issue that allowed multiple user accounts to be compromised. The attack appeared to rely on tricking Meta’s AI support chatbot into…

CrowdStrike, in partnership with Google and Shadowserver, a non-profit organization that scans and monitors the internet for cyberattacks, took down a botnet used by cybercriminals to…

An international coalition of law enforcement agencies announced Thursday that they have taken down a popular virtual private network service used by cybercriminals and arrested its…

Earlier this week, hackers took over many open source projects used by dozens of companies and pushing updates designed to spread malware. This is the latest…

On Tuesday, education technology giant Instructure disclosed a data breach where hackers stole students’ private information, including their names, personal email addresses and messages sent between…

Regular internet users and companies aren’t the only victims of malicious hackers. Sometimes, hackers themselves get hacked. This happened in an unusual hacking campaign where an…

Education tech giant Instructure has confirmed data breach affecting students’ personal information. Hacking and extortion gang ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for the breach. The hackers claim to…

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…