The US Blames Russia’s GRU for Sweeping Cyberattacks in Georgia
For more than a decade, Russian hackers have tormented the country’s neighbors, bombarding Estonian websites with junk traffic and even triggering blackouts […]
Tag: Security / Cyberattacks and Hacks
Hundreds of Millions of PC Components Still Have Hackable Firmware
That laptop on your desk or that server on a data center rack isn’t so much a computer as a network of […]
Over 500 Chrome Extensions Secretly Uploaded Private Data
More than 500 browser extensions downloaded millions of times from Google’s Chrome Web Store surreptitiously uploaded private browsing data to attacker-controlled servers, […]
Hundreds of Chrome Extensions Secretly Uploaded Private Data
More than 500 browser extensions downloaded millions of times from Google’s Chrome Web Store surreptitiously uploaded private browsing data to attacker-controlled servers, […]
How 4 Chinese Hackers Allegedly Took Down Equifax
In September 2017, credit reporting giant Equifax came clean: It had been hacked, and the sensitive personal information of 143 million US […]
Cisco Flaws Put Millions of Workplace Devices at Risk
Workplace phones and routers have a long, storied history of very bad vulnerabilities. Now it’s time again to add to the list: […]
Mysterious New Ransomware Targets Industrial Control Systems
Only a few times in the history of hacking has a piece of malicious code been spotted attempting to meddle directly with […]
Watch Out for Coronavirus Phishing Scams
On Thursday, as coronavirus infections spread, the World Health Organization classified the outbreak as a global emergency. On Friday, United States officials […]
Intel Is Patching the Patch for the Patch for Its ‘Zombieload’ Flaw
Over the last two years, security researchers have dug up one technique after another that lets a hacker trick Intel’s microprocessors into […]
The Sneaky Simple Malware That Hits Millions of Macs
The popular misconception that Macs don’t get viruses has become a lot less popular in recent years, as Apple devices have weathered […]