Security

In 2008, I started operating as a hacker for hire. Since the hottest thing on the market is always catching a cheater, I was hired to investigate whether my client’s fiancé was faithful or if he was having secret conversations on a German social networking site.

Following blockchain data analysts' warnings about suspicious outflows from BingX, the cryptocurrency exchange confirmed the breach and offered 10% to hackers. More than $44 million was allegedly stolen.

What looked like a phishing email was just bad cybersecurity practices from a popular US car rental company.

Education for kids isn't what it used to be, especially regarding the technology we use. We live in a world where exhausted parents have replaced baby pacifiers with smartphones and tablets to keep kids distracted, which doesn’t provide any meaningful mental stimulation beyond hand-eye coordination.

Cybernews exclusive research has revealed that a massive data leak at MC2 Data, a background check firm, affects a staggering amount of US citizens.

Almost half of cyberattacks in the European Union are denial of service attacks (DDoS), putting NoName057 at the top of the most active threat actors’ list.

Scammers combined Google Ads with Walmart Lists to trick customers into believing they were trafficking druglord money and now have to pay for the imaginary crime.

The Iranian threat actor UNC1860, affiliated with the country’s Ministry of Intelligence (MOIS), is a collector of specialized tooling and passive backdoors for gaining initial access and remaining in critical networks for prolonged periods, Google’s Mandiant warns.

Nearly a million Colombians and businesses were affected after the GoPass payment app exposed drivers’ sensitive data to anyone on the internet.

The FBI has warned that cyber actors linked to China have compromised over 260,000 internet-connected devices, mostly routers, to create a massive botnet. It’s used for malicious activities, such as distributed denial of service attacks, or as a proxy to conceal identities.

Windows users risk losing funds from crypto wallets and other personal data from a new form of attack involving captcha verification.

A crude malicious Chrome extension for stealing personal data and crypto can slip through malware detection systems, despite its simplicity. This significant leak provides unique insights into the effectiveness of malicious campaigns and the limitations of current spam and malware detection systems.

Russian election interference efforts have shifted to spreading “outlandish fake conspiracy theories” about the Harris-Walz campaign, the Microsoft Threat Analysis Center (MTAC) warns.

Cyberattacks on healthcare institutions can quickly turn deadly. And while larger organizations are starting to adapt to the new cyber reality, smaller local hospitals are mostly left to fend for themselves. Closer collaboration might help to solve the crisis.

Over three million records, containing detailed information about vehicles and their owners, have been left open online. The weirdest part? There‘s no clear owner of the exposed dataset.

Temu, a popular e-commerce marketplace, says that not a single line of data disseminated by an unknown threat actor matches its real records.

RansomHub, a ransomware newcomer that rose to prominence this year, has claimed a breach of Japanese company Kawasaki and released 487GB of its data publicly.

Threat actors can exploit some of the most popular creative Adobe applications to take over Windows and macOS machines.

In July alone, Google terminated almost 13,000 YouTube channels linked to Russian and Chinese coordinated influence operations. The number of terminated Russian channels spiked dramatically in recent months.

Braza Bank left its systems vulnerable to cyberattacks and accounts takeover, Cybernews research shows.