Security News

China Possibly Hacking US “Lawful Access” Backdoor
2024-10-08 11:00

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Chinese hackers (Salt Typhoon) penetrated the networks of US broadband providers, and might have accessed the backdoors that the federal government uses...

Alert: Over 700,000 DrayTek Routers Exposed to Hacking via 14 New Vulnerabilities
2024-10-02 13:00

A little over a dozen new security vulnerabilities have been discovered in residential and enterprise routers manufactured by DrayTek that could be exploited to take over susceptible devices....

Andariel Hacking Group Shifts Focus to Financial Attacks on U.S. Organizations
2024-10-02 10:00

Three different organizations in the U.S. were targeted in August 2024 by a North Korean state-sponsored threat actor called Andariel as part of a likely financially motivated attack. "While the...

Hacking ChatGPT by Planting False Memories into Its Data
2024-10-01 11:07

This vulnerability hacks a feature that allows ChatGPT to have long-term memory, where it uses information from past conversations to inform future conversations with that same user. A researcher...

Hacking the “Bike Angels” System for Moving Bikeshares
2024-09-23 15:46

I always like a good hack. And this story delivers. Basically, the New York City bikeshare program has a system to reward people who move bicycles from full stations to empty ones. By deliberately...

X hacking spree fuels "$HACKED" crypto token pump-and-dump
2024-09-18 19:07

An X account hacking spree has fueled a successful pump-and-dump scheme for the $HACKED Solana token, with people rushing to buy the coin. [...]

The growing danger of visual hacking and how to protect against it
2024-09-17 04:00

In this Help Net Security interview, Robert Ramsey, CEO at Rain Technology, discusses the growing threat of visual hacking, how it bypasses traditional cybersecurity measures, and the importance...

U.S. Agencies Warn of Iranian Hacking Group's Ongoing Ransomware Attacks
2024-08-29 11:42

U.S. cybersecurity and intelligence agencies have called out an Iranian hacking group for breaching multiple organizations across the country and coordinating with affiliates to deliver...

Man sentenced for hacking state registry to fake his own death
2024-08-21 22:11

A 39-year old man from Somerset, Kentucky, was sentenced to 81 months in federal prison for identity theft and faking his own death in government registry systems. [...]

New macOS Malware TodoSwift Linked to North Korean Hacking Groups
2024-08-21 11:00

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new macOS malware strain dubbed TodoSwift that they say exhibits commonalities with known malicious software used by North Korean hacking groups. "This application shares several behaviors with malware we've seen that originated in North Korea - specifically the threat actor known as BlueNoroff - such as KANDYKORN and RustBucket," Kandji security researcher Christopher Lopez said in an analysis.