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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…
GitHub, the popular developer platform owned by Microsoft, confirmed that it had been breached and attackers had stolen data from around 3,800 internal code repositories. The…
From teenage hacker to Iron Dome researcher, this founder raised $28M to fight AI phishing
Shay Shwartz knows a lot about email phishing attacks. As a teenager, he made money as a hacker, but after he got caught at 16, he…
A spyware researcher exposed Russian government hackers trying to break into Signal accounts
Earlier this year, Donncha Ó Cearbhaill, a security researcher investigating spyware attacks, found himself in an unusual position. For once he was targeted by hackers. “Dear…
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…