Security News

ExxonMobil Lobbyist Caught Hacking Climate Activists
2025-01-29 12:04

The Department of Justice is investigating a lobbying firm representing ExxonMobil for hacking the phones of climate activists: The hacking was allegedly commissioned by a Washington, D.C.,...

TalkTalk investigates breach after data for sale on hacking forum
2025-01-25 21:23

UK telecommunications company TalkTalk is investigating a third-party supplier data breach after a threat actor began selling alleged customer data on a hacking forum. [...]

Raspberry Pi hands out prizes to all in the RP2350 Hacking Challenge
2025-01-16 15:15

Power-induced glitches, lasers, and electromagnetic fields are all tools of the trade Raspberry Pi has given out prizes for extracting a secret value from the one-time-programmable (OTP) memory of...

Microsoft Takes Legal Action Against AI “Hacking as a Service” Scheme
2025-01-13 12:01

Not sure this will matter in the end, but it’s a positive move: Microsoft is accusing three individuals of running a “hacking-as-a-service” scheme that was designed to allow the creation of...

Microsoft Sues Hacking Group Exploiting Azure AI for Harmful Content Creation
2025-01-11 07:54

Microsoft has revealed that it's pursuing legal action against a "foreign-based threat–actor group" for operating a hacking-as-a-service infrastructure to intentionally get around the safety...

U.S. Sanctions Chinese Cybersecurity Firm for State-Backed Hacking Campaigns
2025-01-04 07:30

The U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Friday issued sanctions against a Beijing-based cybersecurity company known as Integrity Technology Group, Incorporated...

Former NSA cyberspy's not-so-secret hobby: Hacking Christmas lights
2024-12-25 13:27

Rob Joyce explains how it's done Video In 2018, Rob Joyce, then Donald Trump's White House Cybersecurity Coordinator, gave a surprise talk at the legendary hacking conference Shmoocon about his hobby.…

Spyware Maker NSO Group Found Liable for Hacking WhatsApp
2024-12-24 12:04

A judge has found that NSO Group, maker of the Pegasus spyware, has violated the US Computer Fraud and Abuse Act by hacking WhatsApp in order to spy on people using it. Jon Penney and I wrote a...

Hacking Digital License Plates
2024-12-17 17:04

Not everything needs to be digital and “smart.” License plates, for example: Josep Rodriguez, a researcher at security firm IOActive, has revealed a technique to “jailbreak” digital license plates...

US sanctions Chinese firm for hacking firewalls in ransomware attacks
2024-12-10 16:37

The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned Chinese cybersecurity company Sichuan Silence and one of its employees for their involvement in a series of Ragnarok ransomware attacks targeting U.S....