Hackers exploited free VPN services to build a massive botnet, used home PCs to commit fraud
The "free" service enabled billions of dollars in fraud, now hit with US sanctions
College students find exploit to run laundromat machines for free or add money to an account without paying
UC San Cruz students are NOT using this hack en masse... No really
International cybercrime taskforce places $10 million bounty on the head of LockBit leader
The Russian hacker profited more than $100 million in ransom from US and European firms
Ransomware criminals use children's phone numbers to coerce payments from parents
"A psychological attack against the victim"
Gamers hack classic Tetris on NES to run custom code without altering cartridges
It involves the infamous "kill screen"
Cybercrime doesn't pay: REvil hacker receives 13-year prison sentence and $16 million fine
He played a part in extorting $700 million from more than 2,500 victims
Nvidia RTX 4090 can crack complex 8-character passwords in minutes
The Nvidia A100 can do it even faster
Millions of devices still vulnerable to abandoned USB worm, continues to spread globally
Researchers suspect Chinese state-sponsored hackers are responsible
Cybercriminals are using developing nations as test beds for ransomware attacks
Sandboxing their techniques
Russia-backed hacking group suspected of attack on US water system
Sandworm also created NotPetya
Bad actors are tempting T-Mobile employees with cash rewards to perform SIM swaps
Numbers said to be sourced from a T-Mobile employee directory
Government review criticizes Microsoft for security lapses in "preventable" Exchange hack
An incident that "should never have occurred"
AT&T confirms data leak affecting 73 million customers - after spending two weeks denying it
Four-digit passcodes have been reset for affected customers
Activision Blizzard investigates hacking campaign linked to cheat software
Cheating isn't worth it at this price
Ethical hackers show how to open millions of hotel keycard locks
Any NFC-enabled Android phone could forge a master key for every room in a hotel
In a nutshell: Over three million hotel room locks in 13,000 buildings in 131 countries are vulnerable to an exploit that lets attackers forge master keys for any door. Although the manufacturer of the affected locks is rolling out a fix, it's unclear when or if every impacted hotel will upgrade its systems.
White House warns of cyberattacks targeting critical US water systems
Water plants can be an easy target for hackers
Apex Legends tournament postponed after players hacked mid-match
Was a RCE bug to blame?
If you teach a chatbot how to read ASCII art, it will teach you how to make a bomb
In context: Most, if not all, large language models censor responses when users ask for things considered dangerous, unethical, or illegal. Good luck getting Bing to tell you how to cook your company's books or crystal meth. Developers block the chatbot from fulfilling these queries, but that hasn't stopped people from figuring out workarounds.
LockBit ransomware group member sentenced to four years for infecting over 1,000 systems
He must also pay a $635,000 fine
Hackers can access your private, encrypted AI assistant chats
The entry point is the token-length side-channel, which is present in most of the major AI assistants
International organization Cybercrime Atlas wants to disrupt cybercrime on a global scale
In a nutshell: The biggest security threats active today work on the international stage, which means an effective attempt to disrupt them should be global as well. Members of the Cybercrime Atlas are trying to do just that, starting with a shared intelligence on cybercrime gangs and their operations.
Russian state-sponsored hackers compromised Microsoft source code repositories
The previously disclosed attack is worse than initially thought - and it's ongoing
Hardware hackers manage to run GTA: Vice City on a wireless router
If a PowerPC-based router can run Linux, it will definitely run video games, too
A ransomware group says it has stolen almost 200GB of data from Epic Games (updated)
The group has not posted any evidence supporting its claim
