It may be a new year, but the hacks, scams, and dangerous people lurking online haven’t gone anywhere. Just a day before the ball dropped, the United States Treasury Department said it had been hacked. Officials believe the attackers are an as-yet-unidentified Advanced Persistent Threat group linked to China’s government that exploited flaws in remote […]
A 22-year-old who pleaded guilty to stealing and selling unreleased music by artists like Coldplay and Shawn Mendes was sentenced to 21 months in prison, the BBC reports. Skylar Dalziel was accused of hacking cloud storage accounts linked to various artists and then selling the stolen tracks on the dark web. Dalziel allegedly made an […]
As the ransomware industry evolves, experts are predicting hackers will only continue to find more and more ways of using the technology to exploit businesses and individuals. Seksan Mongkhonkhamsao | Moment | Getty Images Ransomware is now a billion-dollar industry. But it wasn’t always that large — nor was it the prevalent cybersecurity risk it […]
“I cannot believe that we’re seeing command injection vulnerabilities in 2024 in any products, let alone a secure remote access product that’s supposed to have additional vetting for use by the US government,” says Jake Williams, vice president of research and development at the cybersecurity consultancy Hunter Strategy and a former NSA hacker. “They are […]
WASHINGTON — A ninth U.S. telecoms firm has been confirmed to have been hacked as part of a sprawling Chinese espionage campaign that gave officials in Beijing access to private texts and phone conversations of an unknown number of Americans, a top White House official said Friday. Biden administration officials said this month that at […]
Every year has its own mix of digital security debacles, from the absurd to the sinister, but 2024 was particularly marked by hacking sprees in which cybercriminals and state-backed espionage groups repeatedly exploited the same weakness or type of target to fuel their frenzy. For attackers, the approach is ruthlessly efficient, but for compromised institutions—and […]
Scammers are out of control. Every year, fraudsters and cybercriminals make billions by tricking people into parting with their cash. Romance fraud, business email compromiseinvestment scams, sextortion—the list of ways criminals prey on people is virtually endless and constantly changing. Add to that impersonation scams, where a criminal pretends to be someone known to their […]
It’s been a busy year in cybersecurity, but it’s not over yet. This week, we revealed how hackers figured out how to “jailbreak” digital license plates—which are legally issued in at least a couple of states and are valid across the US—allowing them to change the license plate number to basically anything. That means someone […]
“I’m fighting with Google now,” Townsend told Ars. “I don’t expect any real answers from them.” How YouTubers can avoid being targeted As YouTube appears evasive, Townsend has been grateful for long-time subscribers commenting to show support, which may help get his videos amplified more by the algorithm. On YouTube, he also said that because […]
A second CISA employee predicts that “compliance efforts like secure-by-design may not have the support that they currently benefit from.” That retreat from corporate oversight will be a top priority of Musk and other tech billionaires who have flocked to Trump. “The tech influence here, assuming Elon Musk stays in Trump’s good graces, is going […]
