Category: CYBER SECURITY

Elon Musk-run X (formerly Twitter) went down for hours for thousands of users after Sudan-based hackers hit the platform in a bid to put pressure on Musk to launch his cheaper internet Starlink service in their country.

Paramount Global, the parent company of CBS, MTV, and Nickelodeon, has disclosed a data breach that occurred in May and June 2023.

The All-in-One WP Migration Extensions plugin, a popular tool for seamlessly migrating WordPress websites, has been found to suffer from a security vulnerability that allows unauthenticated users to update or delete access token configurations for the affected extensions.

The University of Michigan has taken down its network after a cyberattack on Sunday, August 27, 2023. The cyberattack affected the university's internet, email, and other online services.

Hackers have developed automated software programs that exploit OTP (One-Time Password) verification APIs (Application Programming Interface) to flood mobile devices with excessive OTP SMS messages, a new report said on Monday.

Arion Kurtaj, an 18-year-old member of the infamous hacking group Lapsus$, used just an Amazon Fire TV stick, smartphone, keyboard, and mouse to hack into the Rockstar Games which created the Grand Theft Auto VI game.

Discord has started notifying users affected by a March data breach, about three months after the company announced the attack in May.

Pôle emploi is informing of a data breach that exposed data belonging to 10 million individuals.

The Jupiter X Core plugin for WordPress has been updated to patch two critical vulnerabilities.

The FBI has warned that North Korean hackers may be preparing to cash out around $41 million worth of stolen cryptocurrency. The warning comes after the hackers moved roughly 1,580 bitcoins stolen in previous crypto-heists to six cryptocurrency wallets.

The scraped data of 2.6 million Duolingo users has been released on a hacking forum. The data includes usernames, emails, phone numbers, and course information.

The notorious ransomware gang BlackCat also known as ALPHV, has claimed responsibility for the cyberattack disclosed by the Japanese watchmaker Seiko firm earlier this month.

North Korean hackers have launched a series of cyberattacks on U.S.-South Korea military drills, according to South Korean police.

Researchers have found that threat actors could use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to steal user passwords with near-perfect accuracy by "listening" to an unsuspecting person's keystrokes, a new study has shown.

Hackers use malicious links as the top deception tactic, comprising 35.6 percent of threats, and they're getting more creative about how they get people to click on bad links, a new report showed on Wednesday.

Hackers exploited a zero-day vulnerability in the MOVEit file-transfer software to steal sensitive medical and health information data of millions of Americans, the US authorities have revealed.