Tag: Security

Harvard University reveals data breach exposed 851,000 accounts

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Hackers exploited iOS and Android flaws to infect phones

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Hackers possibly linked to the Kremlin exploited previously patched iOS and Android flaws in an attempt to hack visitors...

Hackers stole DreamHost customer files and inboxes during months-long attack

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The web host said hackers exploited a vulnerability to access customer emails and files during a "deliberate attack."

Binance says hackers who stole billions in crypto spent months planning heist

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The hackers who stole billions of dollars in cryptocurrency from the Binance exchange spent months working on the theft...

Google dismantles botnet secretly running on 1.3 million Android TV boxes

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Smashing the botnet Google worked with several other organizations to disrupt the x.cpe network, including Japan’s National Police Agency, Synthient,...

UEFI bootkit infected fully patched Windows machines. Is Microsoft to blame?

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In 2023, malware tracked as BlackLotus became the first publicly documented in-the-wild UEFI bootkit capable of bypassing Secure Boot...

This clever banking scam keeps phishing by faking its own demise – how it works

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ZDNET’s key takeaways Fake banking websites are faking their own suspensions to fly under the radar While scanners see a takedown...

This new Windows malware steals all your data, then uses AI to rank how valuable you are as a victim

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Anti-Oligarchy Activists Plan to Dox Elon Musk and Hundreds of Billionaire-Linked Homes

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An underground activist group says it plans to start openly doxing billionaires as part of a phased campaign against...

FBI confirms it thinks North Korean hackers hit Binance in record cryptocurrency heist

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Share this article Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter The FBI formally attributes...

Spooky New Infostealer Malware Uses AI to ‘Autodox’ Victims

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Welcome to Kernel Panic, a weekly newsletter by Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess from inside the new world...

A Supply Chain Attack Put Malicious Anthropic Claude Extensions on Thousands of Devices

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The AI software-development platform Cursor, which is owned by SpaceX, had a malicious Anthropic Claude Code extension for Windows,...