Editorial

The FBI spent months entrenched in the systems of a top-five ransomware syndicate. We asked people familiar with such operations how the Bureau managed to pull it off.

With Netflix’s crackdown on password sharing set to begin in the coming months, many are still wondering what it is going to look like. It seems that the plan is to keep bothering you with prompts to verify devices – until you run out of patience.

Ransomware groups such as LockBit have ethics policies, pledging to avoid certain sensitive victims - what's really going on?

Despite Google's position as the leading search engine and the growing popularity of Google Docs, a collaboration between Microsoft and ChatGPT could alter the digital landscape and change how we work forever.

Law enforcement has scored a victory this week by dismantling the Hive ransomware gang. Meanwhile, Riot Games confirmed ransomware after the source code of its popular game leaked online.

As the conflict in Ukraine approaches the threshold of its second year, the EU has warned of the “longer-term challenge” to combat online disinformation, having detected more than 200 Russian campaigns in the past year targeting the country it attacked last February.

It has been a notoriously tough couple of weeks in the tech industry, with Amazon laying off 18,000 employees, Google a further 12,000, and Microsoft following the worrying trend with 10,000. But what does this mean for Silicon Valley and the tech industry?

The AI-powered chatbot tool is rewriting the world – but what happens in the future, and could there be competition with tech giants like Google?

With the help of artificial intelligence (AI) powered apps, you can create a virtual avatar that will interact with your loved ones after your death. Spooky or cute? I’ve decided to try out HereAfter AI – even though I’m not planning to die just yet.

We might call it the week of the breaches – a handful of well-known brands admitted to being hacked, leaving tens of millions of customers exposed.

As concerns grow about snooping on messages, encrypted alternative Threema is coming into the conversation.

No one argues – nor should they – that fighting online child abuse is not vital. But the European Union is choosing a risky direction that would endanger end-to-end encryption, Callum Voge, a tech policy researcher, says.

Recently health sects have come to light in France, spreading disinformation in the post-COVID world – but as any internet watcher will know, that is just the tip of the iceberg. Cybernews reached out to an intelligence expert to get his views on where the information wars are taking us.

Netflix is about to end password-sharing early this year as it sees the practice as a major problem eating into subscriptions. From a business standpoint, it’s only rational – however, there’s also the risk of an angry exodus of consumers.

Two years ago, businesses worldwide were forced to go from working in an office to working at home at scale almost overnight. However, we now find ourselves in a post-pandemic world where everything has changed again.

Here are a few tips on how using apps and other digital resources allows you to keep on track and avoid getting in your way on your journey to success.

Do not fool yourself – if you are online, you are not safe. Hackers are targeting pretty much everything – from your love life to your favorite fast-food restaurant.

The artificial intelligence (AI) text generator ChatGPT3 could be used by state-backed threat actors to scale up their disinformation campaigns, research warns – but other analysts say it is ultimately the human factor that is more dangerous and disruptive to internet communities.