Published on: 2025-06-21 17:21:32
A Russian state-sponsored cyberespionage campaign attributed to APT28 (Fancy Bear/Forest Blizzard) hackers has been targeting and compromising international organizations since 2022 to disrupt aid efforts to Ukraine. The hackers targeted entities in the defense, transportation, IT services, air traffic, and maritime sectors in 12 European countries and the United States. Additionally, the hackers have been tracking the movement of materials into Ukraine by compromising access to private camera
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-23 13:07:26
Retail hackers believed to be young and from US and UK, detectives say 2 hours ago Share Save Joe Tidy Cyber correspondent, BBC World Service Share Save Getty Images The disruption being caused by the wave of cyber attacks on UK retailers has been apparent for weeks. Empty shelves, cancelled online orders, the data of millions of customers stolen. What has been much less clear is who is responsible, with the companies and authorities only giving limited details. But, now - in their first inte
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-27 20:43:33
A letter from the M&S hackers landed in my inbox - this is what happened next 4 hours ago Share Save Joe Tidy Cyber correspondent Share Save BBC Joe Tidy interacted with hackers who claimed to have done the M&S and Co-op hack Almost daily, my phone pings with messages from hackers of all stripes. The good, the bad, the not-so-sure. I've been reporting on cyber security for more than a decade, so I know that many of them like to talk about their hacks, findings and escapades. About 99% of thes
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-28 08:23:10
In Brief Eric Council Jr., 26, was sentenced to 14 months in prison and three years of supervised release on Friday for participating in the hack of the official X account of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The U.S. Department of Justice announced the sentencing in a press release. Council and other hackers took over the SEC’s X account in 2024 to falsely announce that the agency had approved Bitcoin exchange traded funds, or ETFs, which shot up the price of the cryptocurrency bef
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-01 01:14:39
Hackers are running a worldwide cyberespionage campaign dubbed 'RoundPress,' leveraging zero-day and n-day flaws in webmail servers to steal email from high-value government organizations. ESET researchers who uncovered the operation attribute it with medium confidence to the Russian state-sponsored hackers APT28 (aka "Fancy Bear" or "Sednit"). The campaign started in 2023 and continued with the adoption of new exploits in 2024, targeting Roundcube, Horde, MDaemon, and Zimbra. Notable targets
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-18 07:45:19
In Brief GlobalX, an airline used by the Trump administration as part of its massive deportation campaign, has reportedly been hacked. On Monday, 404 Media first reported news of the breach, based on a defacement message on the airline’s official website and stolen data that the hackers shared with the news website. “Anonymous has decided to enforce the Judge’s order since you and your sycophant staff ignore lawful orders that go against your fascist plans,” wrote the hackers, who claimed to
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In Brief GlobalX, an airline used by the Trump administration as part of its massive deportation campaign, has reportedly been hacked. On Monday, 404 Media first reported news of the breach, based on a defacement message on the airline’s official website and stolen data that the hackers shared with the news website. “Anonymous has decided to enforce the Judge’s order since you and your sycophant staff ignore lawful orders that go against your fascist plans,” wrote the hackers, who claimed to
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-21 07:41:13
Co-op cyber attack affects customer data, firm admits, after hackers contact BBC 2 hours ago Share Save Joe Tidy Cyber correspondent, BBC World Service Share Save Getty Images Cyber criminals have told BBC News their hack against Co-op is far more serious than the company previously admitted. Hackers contacted the BBC with proof they had infiltrated IT networks and stolen huge amounts of customer and employee data. After being approached on Friday, a Co-op spokesperson said the hackers "acces
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-21 17:41:13
Co-op hackers stole 'significant' amount of customer data 20 minutes ago Share Save Joe Tidy Cyber correspondent, BBC World Service Share Save Getty Images Cyber criminals have told BBC News their hack against Co-op is far more serious than the company has previously told the public. Hackers contacted the BBC with proof they had infiltrated IT networks and stolen huge amounts of customer and employee data. After being contacted on Friday, a Co-op spokesperson said the hackers "accessed data r
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-25 05:21:22
Co-op cyber attack: Staff urged to keep cameras on in meetings It comes as supermarket Marks & Spencer (M&S) struggles with a major ransomware attack. It is not known if the hacks are linked. It disclosed on Wednesday that it had shut down parts of its IT systems in response to hackers attempting to gain access. In an internal email to the 70,000 members of staff at the supermarket, funeral service and insurance company, workers are being urged to be vigilant as IT teams work to ensure hacker
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-25 05:00:05
Spring cleaning means more than just dusting off your curtains or decluttering your desk. It's also the perfect time to tidy up your digital life, starting with your passwords. World Password Day is observed on the first Thursday in May, a day that's been encouraging people to review their passwords and security settings since Intel created the event in 2013. Read more: Best Password Manager in 2025 Nearly every year, a list of the worst passwords makes the rounds online, and the same weak ch
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-27 14:45:50
Co-op fends off hackers as police probe M&S cyber attack The Co-op has shut down parts of its IT systems in response to hackers attempting to gain access to them. It said the "proactive measures" it had taken to fend off the attack had had a "small impact" on its call centre and back office. Meanwhile, The Metropolitan Police has confirmed it's looking into the major cyber attack at fellow retailer Marks & Spencer (M&S). "Detectives from the Met's cyber crime unit are investigating," it said
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-29 21:00:00
Hackers working for governments were responsible for the majority of attributed zero-day exploits used in real-world cyberattacks last year, per new research from Google. Google’s report said that the number of zero-day exploits — referring to security flaws that were unknown to the software makers at the time hackers abused them — had dropped from 98 exploits in 2023 to 75 exploits in 2024. But the report noted that of the proportion of zero-days that Google could attribute — meaning identifyi
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What is bug hunting and why is it changing? 54 minutes ago Share Save Joe Fay Technology Reporter Share Save Bugcrowd At events like Bugcrowd Bug Bash hackers compete to find software bugs Few technology careers offer the chance to demonstrate your skills in exclusive venues worldwide, from luxury hotels to Las Vegas e-sports arenas, peers cheering you on as your name moves up the leaderboard and your earnings rack up. But that's what Brandyn Murtagh experienced within his first year as a bug
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-01 21:35:00
The cybersecurity world is full of jargon and lingo. At TechCrunch, we have been writing about cybersecurity for years, and we frequently use technical terms and expressions to describe the nature of what is happening in the world. That’s why we have created this glossary, which includes some of the most common — and not so common — words and expressions that we use in our articles, and explanations of how, and why, we use them. This is a developing compendium, and we will update it regularly.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-14 01:33:08
These days, hackers don't break in — they log in. Using valid credentials, cybercriminals bypass security systems while appearing legitimate to monitoring tools. And the problem is widespread; Google Cloud reports that weak or nonexistent credential protection facilitates 47% of cloud breaches, while IBM X-Force attributes nearly one-third of global cyberattacks to account compromises. So what does this mean for your organization’s defenses? Here’s what you need to know about how to protect y
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-23 21:00:00
On February 21, the largest crypto heist ever started to unfold. Hackers gained control of a crypto wallet belonging to the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange, Bybit, and stole almost $1.5 billion of digital tokens. They quickly shunted the money between dozens of cryptocurrency wallets and services to try and obscure the activity, before starting to cash the stolen funds out. The eye-popping digital raid had all the hallmarks of being conducted by one of North Korea’s elite subgrou
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-23 21:00:00
The Most Dangerous Hackers You’ve Never Heard Of From crypto kingpins to sophisticated scammers, these are the lesser-known hacking groups that should be on your radar.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-31 17:39:00
DragonImages/Getty Images When I grew up, we didn't have smart devices. TVs, bulbs, and even telephones were simple analog devices. If you'd told my grandmother that she had to update her TV or lightbulb, she'd have thought you were asking to buy a new, replacement device -- not download a software update. But today, almost all electronic devices -- even those lightbulbs -- have a digital circuit at their core. And those digital circuits need to be upgraded to remain compatible with ecosystem
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-13 04:10:14
PM Images/Getty Images I have given hundreds of cybersecurity-related webcasts and presentations, written hundreds of cybersecurity-related articles, and been involved in hundreds of one-on-one cybersecurity-related meetings with clients. Someone will always respond, comment, or protest that their business is too small for a hacker's attention. Small target illusion But none of these folks understand the economics of a hack when it comes to small businesses. There isn't a random guy out ther
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-13 05:00:14
style-photography/Getty Images When I grew up, we didn't have smart devices. TVs, bulbs, and even telephones were simple analog devices. If you'd told my grandmother that she had to update her TV or lightbulb, she'd have thought you were asking to buy a new, replacement device -- not download a software update. But today, almost all electronic devices -- even those lightbulbs -- have a digital circuit at their core. And those digital circuits need to be upgraded to remain compatible with ecosy
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-18 16:24:26
OpenAI just launched a powerful new image generation model. In their announcement post, they touted the new model's many new capabilities, including photorealism, better knowledge of the world, and the ability to learn from user-uploaded images. But the most noteworthy of these changes, in my opinion, is the new text-rendering capability. At long last, a frontier lab has produced an image gen model that renders text as text, instead of as melty AI slop. This makes generated AI images much mor
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-02 12:42:35
The Pennsylvania State Education Association (PSEA), a labor union representing educators across the state, says hackers stole the sensitive personal information of more than half a million of its members. PSEA is the largest organization for educators in Pennsylvania, representing current and former teachers, counselors, health care workers, and school social workers. In a filing with Maine’s attorney general on Tuesday, PSEA said it experienced a cyberattack in July 2024 that saw an unauthor
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-15 12:16:15
In Brief Apple released patches for a bug that it says “may have been exploited in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals,” citing a report. The zero-day bug was found in WebKit, the browser engine powering Safari and other apps, and allowed hackers to break out of WebKit’s protective sandbox with “maliciously crafted web content,” per Apple. A sandbox is part of the operating system that, even if compromised, can keep hackers from accessing data in other parts
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'Garbage' to blame Ukraine for massive X outage, experts say He said the incident at X "doesn't reflect well on their cyber security." "I can't think of a company of the size and standing internationally of X that's fallen over to a DDoS attack for a very long time," he added. "It's not that sophisticated - it's a very old technique," Mr Martin told Radio 4's Today programme. Prof Martin - former head of the UK's National Cyber Security Centre - says it looks as if X was targeted by what's k
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North Korean hackers cash out hundreds of millions from $1.5bn ByBit hack Hackers thought to be working for the North Korean regime have successfully cashed out at least $300m (£232m) of their record-breaking $1.5bn crypto heist. The criminals, known as Lazarus Group, swiped the huge haul of digital tokens in a hack on crypto exchange ByBit two weeks ago. Since then, it's been a cat-and-mouse game to track and block the hackers from successfully converting the crypto into usable cash. Expert
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-24 02:37:09
US charges Chinese hackers who targeted dissidents 25 minutes ago Share Save Annabelle Liang Business reporter Share Save Getty Images US prosecutors have charged 12 Chinese nationals for being part of an alleged hacking scheme, which sold data of US-based dissidents to the Chinese government. The "state-sponsored" operation also targeted government agencies including the Treasury, according to the Justice Department (DOJ). Hackers also allegedly targeted an American religious organisation, a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-25 05:12:56
Only rarely does the West get a glimpse inside the vast hacker-for-hire contractor ecosystem that enables China's digital intrusion campaigns worldwide. Now a new set of criminal charges against a dozen Chinese nationals, including two government officials, accuses them of a vast espionage campaign that included breaching the US Treasury, and goes as far as revealing the internal communications of some of those alleged hackers, their tools, and their business relationships. The US Department of
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-25 10:12:56
Only rarely does the West get a glimpse inside the vast hacker-for-hire contractor ecosystem that enables China's digital intrusion campaigns worldwide. Now a new set of criminal charges against a dozen Chinese nationals, including two government officials, accuses them of a vast espionage campaign that included breaching the US Treasury, and goes as far as revealing the internal communications of some of those alleged hackers, their tools, and their business relationships. The US Department of
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-27 14:23:49
The hackers who stole around $1.4 billion in cryptocurrency from crypto exchange Bybit have moved nearly all of the robbed proceeds and converted them into Bitcoin, in what experts call the first phase of the money-laundering operation. On February 21, Bybit said that a “sophisticated attack” on one of the company’s wallets resulted in the theft of 401,346 Ethereum, worth around $1.4 billion at the time, in what is the largest crypto theft in history and possibly the largest heist of any kind e
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