Coverage tagged "Hacking".
A Chinese-speaking criminal pointed autonomous AI agents at company websites and let them break in with almost no help, and a security researcher watched it happen because the operators left their…
Alex Hickey reports: Two Welsh organisations have been censured by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) after a ransomware attack led to the theft of personal data belonging to 3,300…
Simone Kraus writes: On October 9, 2026, Reuters introduced the world to Adem El Adeb, a 19-year-old so called former cybercriminal known as Pryx, who claimed to have abandoned illegal hacking and…
A Nigerian national was sentenced to eight years in prison for his involvement in a series of spearphishing attacks targeting US tax preparation businesses since 2019.
SAN FRANCISCO — October 20, 2026 — Horizon3, the AI-Native Proactive Security Company behind NodeZero®, the World’s Best AI Hacker, today announced that it has surpassed $100 million in annual…
A data breach exposed AfD emails, while an anonymous site published AI summaries of 421,000 messages, raising questions about authenticity and privacy. Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland (AfD)…
The compromised information includes names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, and dates of birth.
An attacker used a contributor's GitHub account to replace the download archives on five existing releases of OVHcloud's command-line tool on Monday, October 19. The account had been hijacked, and…
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a ClickFix delivery platform called ROMULUS that's being used to distribute malware such as Legion Loader. According to Forescout Research - Vedere…
Hackers reportedly compromised AOMEI's servers to distribute malware through a built-in promotional feature in its backup software, briefly tampering with configuration files before restoring them to…
Hackers have stolen passwords, access credentials and other sensitive data belonging to customers of Russian hosting provider FirstVDS after exploiting a vulnerability in software used to manage its…
Attackers are targeting an OS command injection vulnerability in SiteGuard Server Edition that lets them execute commands as root or SYSTEM on affected servers.
There must have been red faces in the social media department of Ireland's police headquarters after two of its accounts were hijacked this week.
Attackers are breaking into business email accounts with short messages asking whether a company can quote on an upcoming project, the kind of request sales and procurement staff answer every week…
Left without funds for a coding task, an OpenAI model spent test crypto from a stranger’s wallet and left it out of its report.
Krybit is a fast-growing ransomware gang that was hacked by a rival, hit back, and is still extorting victims. Find out how it works, who it has targeted, and what organisations can do to protect…
A proxyjacking campaign has impacted devices in 34 countries, monetizing victims' internet connections through a commercial residential proxy network.
A roughly 2-year-old cyber-espionage campaign against Central Asian states appears to originate in Kazakhstan, researchers said.
A Windows trojan advertised on hacking forums for as little as $150 a month promises buyers access to a victim’s webcam, microphone, keystrokes and saved passwords, and comes with a set of features…
The digital rights unit found evidence that dozens of devices at media organization Al Jazeera were hacked after being shown malicious online ads.
