Hacking articles

Bad actors are tempting T-Mobile employees with cash rewards to perform SIM swaps

Government review criticizes Microsoft for security lapses in "preventable" Exchange hack

AT&T confirms data leak affecting 73 million customers - after spending two weeks denying it

Activision Blizzard investigates hacking campaign linked to cheat software

Ethical hackers show how to open millions of hotel keycard locks

In a nutshell: Over three million hotel room locks in 13,000 buildings in 131 countries are vulnerable to an exploit that lets attackers forge master keys for any door. Although the manufacturer of the affected locks is rolling out a fix, it's unclear when or if every impacted hotel will upgrade its systems.

White House warns of cyberattacks targeting critical US water systems

Apex Legends tournament postponed after players hacked mid-match

If you teach a chatbot how to read ASCII art, it will teach you how to make a bomb

In context: Most, if not all, large language models censor responses when users ask for things considered dangerous, unethical, or illegal. Good luck getting Bing to tell you how to cook your company's books or crystal meth. Developers block the chatbot from fulfilling these queries, but that hasn't stopped people from figuring out workarounds.

LockBit ransomware group member sentenced to four years for infecting over 1,000 systems

Hackers can access your private, encrypted AI assistant chats

International organization Cybercrime Atlas wants to disrupt cybercrime on a global scale

In a nutshell: The biggest security threats active today work on the international stage, which means an effective attempt to disrupt them should be global as well. Members of the Cybercrime Atlas are trying to do just that, starting with a shared intelligence on cybercrime gangs and their operations.

Russian state-sponsored hackers compromised Microsoft source code repositories

Hardware hackers manage to run GTA: Vice City on a wireless router

A ransomware group says it has stolen almost 200GB of data from Epic Games (updated)

Maker builds device to hack neighbor's Bluetooth speakers that were streaming annoying music

Number of data breaches falls globally, triples in the US

Why it matters: A recent study investigating data breaches throughout 2023 reveals a total of 299.8 million accounts were compromised across the year. While this figure is alarmingly high, it represents an 18% reduction from the 366.7 million breached accounts in 2022. Despite this global decrease, the situation in the United States has worsened, with the number of breaches tripling, positioning it as the world's most frequently targeted country.

Canada moves to ban the Flipper Zero amid rising auto theft concerns

Bottom line: The popularity of the Flipper Zero has Canadian officials on edge. While the tool's capabilities do raise concerns, the knee-jerk prohibition highlights the tricky balance between empowering white-hat hackers and preventing malicious misuse of technology.

Security researcher charged with defrauding Apple out of $2.5 million, company thanks him two weeks later

Hackers could have enslaved 3 million toothbrushes for DDoS attack

Hackers used Ars Technica and Vimeo to deliver malware using obfuscated binary instructions in a URL

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warns that hackers could cause breakdown in world order, calls for digital Geneva Convention

23andMe confirms last year's massive data breach went unnoticed for five months, hackers stole raw genotype data

HPE fell victim to the same Russian hackers that breached Microsoft

Massive leak exposes 26 billion records in mother of all breaches

Russian hackers accessed Microsoft's corporate network for a month

Facepalm: Even though they can now choose from a remarkably long list of attacks against corporate networks, cybercriminals often resort to "simpler" methods like brute-force password guessing. No one is safe from insecure email accounts, after all.