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If you've ever received an out-of-the-blue message via LinkedIn from a recruiter offering some well-paid consultancy work, intelligence agencies have a messa...
Hackers have been hijacking Instagram accounts at scale by exploiting Meta's AI support chatbot. And, as if that weren't bad enough, the technique required n...
A website called "UK visa portal" has been quietly collecting passport scans, selfies, and personal data from thousands of travellers who thought they were a...
Dutch police have arrested a 35-year-old man suspected of hacking into the computer systems of Amsterdam football giant Ajax, after the personal data of hund...
A notorious ransomware gang claims to have stolen MyPillow's private data, but CEO Mike Lindell calls it a politically motivated "hit job." With the countdow...
CISA, the US government agency whose entire job is keeping America's critical infrastructure safe from hackers, has had a contractor publish dozens of plain-...
So, you've enabled multi-factor authentication. You've taught your staff never to type their passwords into dodgy-looking login pages.
For almost 20 years, stolen credentials have been the most common route for attackers into organizations, according to the Verizon Data Breach Investigations...
A 23-year-old radio enthusiast spent £300 on a piece of kit from the internet, and used it to bring four packed high-speed trains to a screeching halt. His d...
Having receive a ransom payment for its attack on Canvas, ShinyHunters and other extortion gangs are only likely to be further incentivised to launch similar...
Having receive a ransom payment for its attack on Canvas, ShinyHunters and other extortion gangs are only likely to be further incentivised to launch similar...
Lesson one for aspiring dark web kingpins: don't have your laundered gold bars shipped to your home address. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security ...
Pay up, or we'll pay someone to pay you a visit. Cybercrime gangs are increasingly turning to real-world threats - and even hiring local muscle to deliver th...
Welcome to the largest educational data breach in history - affecting nearly 9,000 institutions, every Ivy League university, and 30 million students mid-fin...
One in eight UK workers admits to selling their company login credentials - or knowing someone who has - in the past 12 months. The really alarming bit?
Most universities have a careers fair. At Bauman Moscow State Technical University, however, an elite group of students appear to have something rather more ...
You don't need to live near a scam compound for it to wreck your life. Americans lost $5.
Meta's smart glasses promise privacy "designed for you" - but everything they record was being beamed off to workers in Nairobi to label by hand. When those ...
Here's a tip for you all. Unless you want to draw attention to yourself as a cybercriminal, don't flaunt your diamond-encrusted "HACK THE PLANET" necklace on...
US Marines stationed around the Persian Gulf have been receiving WhatsApp messages from strangers suggesting they call home and make their final goodbyes. Re...