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Back to 2018, my former VICE Motherboard colleague Joseph Cox and I started publishing a list of the best cybersecurity stories published elsewhere. It wasn’t just…
Cyber criminals are happening more aggressive in their efforts to maximize disruption and force payment of ransom demands, and now there is a new extortion tactic…
Microsoft disrupts cybercrime business by selling fraudulent accounts to notorious hacking gang
Microsoft says it has successfully dismantled the infrastructure of a cybercrime operation that sold access to fraudulent Outlook accounts to other hackers, including the notorious Scattered…
Hackers have compromised the code behind an encryption protocol used by many web3 applications and services, software maker Ledger said Thursday. Ledger, a company that makes…
In November, the cyber security collective vx-underground wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that unknown hackers claimed to have breached Coin Clouda bankrupt Bitcoin ATM company. According…
Two days before 23andMe revealed that hackers accessed the personal and genetic data of nearly 7 million customers, the genetic testing giant updated its terms of…
The US cybersecurity agency CISA has warned that unknown hackers broke into the servers of a federal government agency by exploiting a previously known vulnerability in…
Last year, Apple released a special new protection for at-risk users – such as journalists and activists – called Lockdown Mode, designed to restrict certain normal…
US accuses Russian hackers of years-long cyber espionage campaign against Western countries
US authorities have charged two hackers linked to Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) for allegedly running a years-long cyber-espionage campaign targeting government officials. The Ministry of…
On Friday, genetic testing company 23andMe announced that hackers accessed the personal data of 0.1% of customers, or about 14,000 people. The company also said that…