Security News

Hacker Who Never Hacked Anyone Gets 33-Month Prison Sentence
2018-02-27 12:48

A hacker who was arrested and pleaded guilty last year—not because he hacked someone, but for creating and selling a remote access trojan that helped cyber criminals—has finally been sentenced to...

Russia Hacked Olympics Computers, Turned Blame on North Korea: Report
2018-02-25 18:45

Russian military spies hacked hundreds of computers used by Winter Olympics organizers and tried to make it look like the work of North Korea, the Washington Post reported Sunday, quoting US...

Thousands of Government Websites Hacked to Mine Cryptocurrencies
2018-02-12 19:03

There was a time when hackers simply defaced websites to get attention, then they started hijacking them to spread banking trojan and ransomware, and now the trend has shifted towards injecting...

Japan Raids Hacked Crypto Exchange, Bitcoin Plunges Further
2018-02-02 17:51

Japanese authorities on Friday raided virtual currency exchange Coincheck, a week after the Tokyo-based firm lost $530 million in cryptocurrency to hackers. read more

Dutch Spies Watched as Russians Hacked US Democrats: Report
2018-01-26 10:41

Dutch intelligence services hacked Russian cyber attackers and alerted US counterparts after watching them transfer "thousands" of Democratic Party emails ahead of the 2016 US election, Dutch...

British teenager hacked top ranking US officials using social engineering
2018-01-22 16:58

How did British teenager Kane Gamble, who at the time was only 15 years old, manage to break into email accounts of the CIA and DNI chiefs, as well as gain access to a number of sensitive...

Norwegian health authority hacked, patient data of nearly 3 million citizens possibly compromised
2018-01-18 16:52

Hackers have breached the systems of the Southern and Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority (Helse Sør-Øst RHF), and possibly made off with personal information and health records of some 2.9...

Canadian Man Charged Over Leak of Three Billion Hacked Accounts
2018-01-16 03:29

An Ontario man made his first court appearance Monday to answer charges of running a website that collected personal and password data from some three billion accounts, and sold them for profit. read more

OnePlus Site’s Payment System Reportedly Hacked to Steal Credit Card Details
2018-01-15 18:03

This year's first bad news for OnePlus users—a large number of OnePlus customers are reporting of fraudulent credit card transactions after buying products from the Chinese smartphone...

Pentagon Hacked in New U.S. Air Force Bug Bounty Program
2017-12-18 15:43

The Hack the Air Force 2.0 bug bounty program kicked off earlier this month with researchers finding a critical vulnerability that could have been exploited to gain access to a network of the U.S....