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Google and FBI warn of ransomware group sending fake IT workers to hack victims in person
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…
Former cyber executive-turned-whistleblower accuses IBM of covering up multiple data breaches
A former IBM cybersecurity executive has accused the company of being hacked three times in the past decade by foreign governments and then covering up the…
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…
Portable health tech startup Superhuman said hackers gained unauthorized access to customer wellness data after stealing an employee’s credentials via malware. On Wednesday, the India-based startup…
Hackers took over Instagram accounts by tricking the Meta AI support chatbot into granting access
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…
Microsoft is under fire for threatening a security researcher with a criminal investigation
After a security researcher published a series of unpatched bugs in Microsoft products, along with code to exploit them, the company is now threatening legal action…
Hackers are targeting Signal users in an attempt to steal their chat backups as part of a new hacking campaign, according to TechCrunch. On Wednesday, Washington…
CrowdStrike and Google take down botnet used by hackers to target open source software developers
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…
In the long history of hacking, there have been numerous data breaches that, years or even decades later, remain unsolved. Countless hackers and the hacker groups…
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…