Published on: 2025-04-30 01:00:00
As China continues its digital gambit around the world, researchers are warning that hacking activity from long-tracked groups is evolving and blending together. On top of that, attackers are hiding their campaigns more effectively and blurring the lines between cybercriminals and state-backed hacking. Last year, revelations rocked the United States federal government that the Chinese hacking group known as “Salt Typhoon” had breached at least nine major US telecoms. And the group’s rampage eve
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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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A SpaceX and X engineer, Christopher Stanley—currently serving as a senior advisor in the Deputy Attorney General's office at the Department of Justice (DOJ)—was reportedly caught bragging about hacking and distributing pirated e-books, bootleg software, and game cheats. The boasts appeared on archived versions of websites, of which several, once flagged, were quickly deleted, Reuters reported. Stanley was assigned to the DOJ by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). While Mus
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In Brief The North Korean government is reportedly establishing a new hacking group within the intelligence agency Reconnaissance General Bureau (RGB). Daily NK, a news outlet that focuses on North Korea, reported last week that the new hacking unit, called Research Center 227, will focus on research to develop “offensive hacking technologies and programs,” citing a source inside the regime. The source said, per the report, Research Center 227 will research Western cybersecurity systems and c
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Image by Getty / Futurism It's been nearly three years since controversial Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui was released from prison for gene-hacking human babies — and now, he appears to be hitting back at the rules that led to his punishment. In a cryptic post on X that featured a photo of the scientist blankly staring directly into the camera, He wrote that "ethics is holding back scientific innovation and progress." Though he doesn't mention it directly, that post seems like a clear refere
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