Category: CYBER SECURITY

An Apple employee discovered a zero-day bug in Google Chrome but did not report it as part of a competition. The bug was, in fact, reported by someone else which was later fixed by Google.

North Korean hackers breached a US tech company and stole cryptocurrency worth millions of dollars. The attack, which was carried out by the Lazarus Group, is the latest in a string of high-profile cyber attacks by North Korea. The Lazarus Group is a state-sponsored hacking...

Hackers have been exploiting a critical vulnerability in the WooCommerce Payments plugin to gain unauthorized access to WordPress sites.

Millions of sensitive emails linked with the US military were sent to Mali, a West African country allied with Russia, due to a typo, The Financial Times reported on Monday.

A majority of the records referred to an application called 419 Dating - Chat & Flirt

Colorado State University (CSU) has confirmed that sensitive personal information of current and former students and employees was stolen in a recent data breach.

The All-In-One Security (AIOS) WordPress security plugin was found to log plaintext passwords from user login attempts to the site's database, putting account security at risk.

Microsoft has mitigated an attack by a China-based threat actor that targeted customer emails. The threat actor, which Microsoft tracks as Storm-0558, primarily targets government agencies in Western Europe and focuses on espionage, data theft, and credential access.

The UK's largest National Health Service (NHS) trust has yet again suffered a ransomware attack on its systems, compromising the data of about 2.5 million patients, media reports said.

More than $30 billion in cryptocurrency has been hacked in 1,102 documented incidents from 2012 to the present, a new report has shown.

The apps, File Recovery and Data Recovery, and File Manager, were both published by the same developer and collected excessive user data without the user's knowledge or consent. The data was then sent to servers in China.

A suspect believed to be a key member of the OPERA1ER cybercrime group, which has targeted mobile banking services and financial institutions in malware, phishing, and Business Email Compromise (BEC) campaigns, has been detained by law enforcement.

More than two-thirds (68 percent) of manufacturing companies hit by ransomware attacks globally had their data encrypted by hackers, a report showed on Tuesday.

A new study has revealed that 58 percent of malware families sold as a service are ransomware.

American medical device company Medtronic said it has identified a vulnerability in its heart device data management system, which if exploited can lead to data being deleted, stolen, or modified.

Apple supplier Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has confirmed that it suffered a data breach after being named as a victim by the Russia-linked LockBit ransomware gang.

Avast, a cybersecurity firm, has released a free decryptor for the Akira ransomware.

The vulnerability remains unpatched and can quickly allow unauthenticated users to automatically take over any site with the plugin installed.