Russian Ransomware Gang Attack Destabilizes UK Royal Mail
A WIRED investigation this week found that the app SweepWizard, which some US law enforcement agencies use to coordinate raids, was publicly […]
Tag: Security / Cyberattacks and Hacks
In the Fight Against Scams, ‘Cyber Ambassadors’ Enter the Chat
Preetika, a 15-year-old student from the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, has stopped playing her favorite mobile game, Free Fire, because of what can […]
A Siemens S7-1500 Logic Controller Flaw Raises the Specter of Stuxnet
“This separate crypto core is a very rudimentary chip. It’s not like a big processor, so it doesn’t really know who it’s […]
Slack Discloses Breach of Its Github Code Repository
Ever since Elon Musk spent $44 billion on Twitter and laid off a large percentage of the company’s staff, there have been concerns about data […]
Twitter Data Leak: What the Exposure of 200 Million User Emails Means for You
After reports at the end of 2022 that hackers were selling data stolen from 400 million Twitter users, researchers now say that […]
Turla, a Russian Espionage Group, Piggybacked on Other Hackers’ USB Infections
The Russian cyberespionage group known as Turla became infamous in 2008 as the hackers behind agent.btz, a virulent piece of malware that […]
Cops Hacked Thousands of Phones. Was It Legal?
For a week in October 2020, Christian Lödden’s potential clients wanted to talk about only one thing. Every person whom the German […]
What Is a Pig Butchering Scam?
Digital swindles like business email compromises and romance scams generate billions of dollars for criminals. And they all start with a little […]
Update Android Right Now to Fix a Scary Remote-Execution Flaw
The holiday season is almost over, but security patches are still continuing to arrive thick and fast in December. The month has […]
The Worst Hacks of 2022
With the pandemic evolving into an amorphous new phase and political polarization on the rise around the world, 2022 was an uneasy […]