Security News

U.K. Hacker Charged in $3.75 Million Insider Trading Scheme Using Hacked Executive Emails
2024-10-01 02:02

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has charged a 39-year-old U.K. national for perpetrating a hack-to-trade fraud scheme that netted him nearly $3.75 million in illegal profits. Robert Westbrook...

Hacker charged for breaching 5 companies for insider trading
2024-09-30 22:02

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged Robert B. Westbrook, a U.K. citizen, with hacking into the computer systems of five U.S. public companies to access confidential earnings...

A Hacker's Era: Why Microsoft 365 Protection Reigns Supreme
2024-09-30 10:30

Imagine a sophisticated cyberattack cripples your organization’s most critical productivity and collaboration tool — the platform you rely on for daily operations. In the blink of an eye, hackers...

Red team hacker on how she 'breaks into buildings and pretends to be the bad guy'
2024-09-29 16:39

Alethe Denis exposes tricks that made you fall for that return-to-office survey Interview A hacker walked into a "very big city" building on a Wednesday morning with no keys to any doors or...

Iranian hackers charged for ‘hack-and-leak’ plot to influence election
2024-09-27 19:47

The U.S. Department of Justice unsealed an indictment charging three Iranian hackers with a "hack-and-leak" campaign that aimed to influence the 2024 U.S. presidential election. [...]

Hackers Could Have Remotely Controlled Kia Cars Using Only License Plates
2024-09-26 16:02

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a set of now patched vulnerabilities in Kia vehicles that, if successfully exploited, could have allowed remote control over key functions simply by using...

N. Korean Hackers Deploy New KLogEXE and FPSpy Malware in Targeted Attacks
2024-09-26 12:28

Threat actors with ties to North Korea have been observed leveraging two new malware strains dubbed KLogEXE and FPSpy. The activity has been attributed to an adversary tracked as Kimsuky, which is...

Cloudflare Warns of India-Linked Hackers Targeting South and East Asian Entities
2024-09-26 06:18

An advanced threat actor with an India nexus has been observed using multiple cloud service providers to facilitate credential harvesting, malware delivery, and command-and-control (C2). Web...

Chinese Hackers Infiltrate U.S. Internet Providers in Cyber Espionage Campaign
2024-09-26 04:49

Nation-state threat actors backed by Beijing broke into a "handful" of U.S. internet service providers (ISPs) as part of a cyber espionage campaign orchestrated to glean sensitive information, The...

CISA: Hackers target industrial systems using “unsophisticated methods”
2024-09-25 16:18

​CISA warned today of threat actors trying to breach critical infrastructure networks by targeting Internet-exposed industrial devices using "unsophisticated" methods like brute force attacks and...