Inside Sophos’ 5-Year War With the Chinese Hackers Hijacking Its Devices
For years, it’s been an inconvenient truth within the cybersecurity industry that the network security devices sold to protect customers from spies […]
Tag: Security / Cyberattacks and Hacks
The Untold Story of Trump’s Failed Attempt to Overthrow Venezuela’s President
On September 26, 2018, Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro approached the lectern at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City. Hulking […]
Cybercriminals Pose a Greater Threat of Disruptive US Election Hacks Than Russia or China
Russian, Chinese, and Iranian state-backed hackers have been active throughout the 2024 United States campaign season, compromising digital accounts associated with political […]
Chinese Hackers Target Trump Campaign via Verizon Breach
The Chinese spy operation adds to the growing sense of a melee of foreign digital interference in the election, which has already […]
Meet ZachXBT, the Masked Vigilante Tracking Down Billions in Crypto Scams and Thefts
As ZachXBT has pursued that career as a crypto vigilante, he has also kept his mask firmly in place. Online, he appears […]
Exposed United Nations Database Left Sensitive Information Accessible Online
A database containing sensitive, sometimes personal information from the United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women was openly accessible on […]
ICE’s $2 Million Contract With a Spyware Vendor Is Under White House Review
A $2 million contract that United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement signed with Israeli commercial spyware vendor Paragon Solutions has been paused […]
Google Chrome’s uBlock Origin Purge Has Begun
And that’s not all. Each week, we round up the security and privacy news we didn’t cover in depth ourselves. Click the […]
This Prompt Can Make an AI Chatbot Identify and Extract Personal Details From Your Chats
The researchers say that if the attack were carried out in the real world, people could be socially engineered into believing the […]
Hacker Charged With Seeking to Kill Using Cyberattacks on Hospitals
In December of 2023, for instance, Anonymous Sudan took OpenAI’s ChatGPT offline with a sustained series of DDoS attacks in response to […]