Category: CYBER SECURITY

Atlas VPN has confirmed a zero-day vulnerability that could allow malicious actors to disconnect users' VPN connections and leak their real IP addresses.

Chipmaker NXP Semiconductors has admitted a data breach, alerting customers about a recent incident involving their personal data.

About 83 percent of Indian organizations experienced a cybersecurity incident in the past year, with 48 percent revealing they experienced 10 or more, causing million-dollar losses, a new report said on Tuesday.

Hackers have withdrawn nearly $41 million from cryptocurrency gambling site Stake likely via a stolen private key.

The German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) website has been disrupted by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack since Friday, September 2, 2023.

Swedish insurance company Trygg-Hansa has been fined $3 million for exposing the personal data of 650,000 customers on its online portal.

Freecycle, a nonprofit organization that facilitates the exchange of used goods, has confirmed a massive data breach that impacted over 7 million users.

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered malicious Signal and Telegram Android apps distributed via the Google Play Store and Samsung Galaxy Store designed to deliver the China-linked "BadBazaar" spyware, a new report has revealed.

A security researcher has discovered serious vulnerabilities in a company that manufactures an internet-controlled chastity device for males that exposed users’ email addresses, plaintext passwords, home addresses, and IP addresses, and -- in some cases -- GPS coordinates.

A team of researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison has found that Chrome extensions can steal plaintext passwords from websites. The researchers created a proof-of-concept extension that can extract passwords from the source code of websites.

Elon Musk-run X (formerly Twitter) went down for hours for thousands of users after Sudan-based hackers hit the platform in a bid to put pressure on Musk to launch his cheaper internet Starlink service in their country.

Paramount Global, the parent company of CBS, MTV, and Nickelodeon, has disclosed a data breach that occurred in May and June 2023.

The All-in-One WP Migration Extensions plugin, a popular tool for seamlessly migrating WordPress websites, has been found to suffer from a security vulnerability that allows unauthenticated users to update or delete access token configurations for the affected extensions.

The University of Michigan has taken down its network after a cyberattack on Sunday, August 27, 2023. The cyberattack affected the university's internet, email, and other online services.

Hackers have developed automated software programs that exploit OTP (One-Time Password) verification APIs (Application Programming Interface) to flood mobile devices with excessive OTP SMS messages, a new report said on Monday.

Arion Kurtaj, an 18-year-old member of the infamous hacking group Lapsus$, used just an Amazon Fire TV stick, smartphone, keyboard, and mouse to hack into the Rockstar Games which created the Grand Theft Auto VI game.

Discord has started notifying users affected by a March data breach, about three months after the company announced the attack in May.