Ransomware threat actors tracked as Velvet Tempest are using the ClickFix technique and legitimate Windows utilities to deploy the DonutLoader malware and the CastleRAT backdoor.

The popular online game-creation platform Roblox, among many other games, has used simple substitution systems to censor ...

In the early 2000s, Gary McKinnon breached US military and NASA networks in what prosecutors called “the biggest military computer hack of all time.” He says he stumbled onto evidence of a hidden ...

The Sophia Script is an open-source PowerShell module designed to debloat and fine-tune Windows 11 (and Windows 10). It is ...

What makes this campaign so striking is not just the malware, but where it is being stored. By shifting malicious code into ...

Tulum has always been the "cool kid" of the Mexican coastline—a place of hidden cenotes, ancient ruins and expensive boutique ...

A hacker jailbroke Claude to steal 150GB of Mexican government data in a month-long campaign. CrowdStrike's latest threat report shows it's part of a wider pattern — and maps four domains most ...

The Fulu Foundation, a nonprofit that pays out bounties for removing user-hostile features, is hunting for a way to keep Ring cameras from sending data to Amazon—without breaking the hardware. The ad ...

A notorious hacking group has claimed responsibility for last year’s data breaches at Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) and published the data that they claim to have ...

TL;DR: Notepad++ was compromised for six months, but it wasn't the software itself which the exploit leveraged, but its hosting provider. An investigation into the attack has just been concluded with ...

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Fireblocks said it has disrupted a North Korea-linked job recruitment impersonation scam that was using LinkedIn. The hackers impersonated the digital asset infrastructure company's hiring process.