cybersecurity

US government ‘took control’ of a botnet run by Chinese government hackers, says FBI director

Last week, the FBI took control of a botnet made up of hundreds of thousands of internet-connected devices, such as cameras, video recorders,...

Discord launches end-to-end encrypted voice and video chats

Discord, one of the largest group chat apps in the world, announced on Tuesday that audio and video calls inside the platform will...

US charges five Russian military hackers with targeting Ukraine’s government with destructive malware

On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Justice accused five members of Russia’s military intelligence agency of hacking several Ukrainian government agencies, an unnamed...

North Korean hackers exploited Chrome zero-day to steal crypto

A North Korean hacking group earlier in August exploited a previously unknown bug in Chrome to target organizations with the goal of stealing...

CoinSwitch sues WazirX to recover trapped funds

CoinSwitch, a prominent Indian cryptocurrency exchange, is suing rival platform WazirX to recover trapped funds, revealing the scope of the damage wrought by...

Halliburton shuts down systems after cyberattack

Oil drilling and fracking giant Halliburton said it has shut down some of its internal systems following a cyberattack earlier this week.  In a...

How the ransomware attack at Change Healthcare went down: A timeline

A ransomware attack earlier this year on UnitedHealth-owned health tech company Change Healthcare likely stands as one of the largest data breaches of...

Trump campaign hack-and-leak appears like a rerun of 2016. This time, media outlets are responding differently

This weekend, Politico dropped a news bombshell: A person who only goes by “Robert” had shared with the news organization documents allegedly stolen...

FBI takes down ransomware gang that hacked dozens of companies

The FBI said Monday it seized the servers of a ransomware and extortion gang called Radar (aka Dispossessor). At the time of writing,...

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