Instagram data of 17.5 million users resurfaces online after 2024 incident
A massive treasure trove of Instagram user data has just bubbled back up to the surface, and it’s putting millions of accounts back in the crosshairs more than a year…
Scattered Spider Hacker Gets 10 Years of Jail Time
A notorious hacking gang known as Scattered Spider just lost one of its legs. A member of the criminal organization, Florida man Noah Urban, was sentenced to ten years in…
AT&T paid big bucks to a hacker to delete stolen customer data, report claims
AT&T Following AT&T’s admission on Friday that a security breach had impacted tens of millions of its customers, a new report claims that the carrier paid around $370,000 to the…
Apple TV+’s Neuromancer Series Takes Another Step Forward
Briana Middleton attends the Essence 16th Annual Black Women in Hollywood Awards on March 9, 2023.Photo: Tommaso Boddi/FilmMagic (Getty Images) Hollywood has been trying to adapt William Gibson’s groundbreaking 1984…
Hacker group says it carried out Christie’s cyberattack
A hacker group has claimed responsibility for a cyberattack that targeted auction house Christie’s earlier this month, the New York Times reported on Monday. The attack, which disrupted the auction…
Double-check that job posting — hackers are spreading malware through them
A new phishing scam has surfaced that is showing how sophisticated bad actors are becoming in tricking unsuspecting victims into giving up their personal information. The latest cyberattack is centered…
Hackers are sending malware through seemingly innocent Microsoft Teams messages
Hackers are getting so sophisticated with malware that they are making links look like a notice about company vacation time. A new phishing scam called “DarkGate Loader” has been uncovered…
FBI disables Russian malware operation targeting foreign governments
The FBI says it has disrupted a long-running malware operation that allowed Russian spies to steal sensitive information from numerous countries, including NASA-member governments, prominent journalists, and other targets deemed…
Hack involved the data of a nation’s entire population
Hackers are well known to nab customer data held by companies, but obtaining the personal data of pretty much all of the residents of a single nation in one fell…
Hackers now exploit new vulnerabilities in just 15 minutes
Hackers are now moving faster than ever when it comes to scanning vulnerability announcements from software vendors.