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WazirX announced reward of $23 million to recover stolen funds

​The offer was open for the hacker who had taken control 0f funds in the first place, provided they…

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Hackers are stealing tickets from Ticketmaster customers' accounts. For many, the troubled platform is their only option.

Two Ticketmaster customers had tickets transferred out of their accounts by hackers. They got them …

Dan Latu,Palmer Haasch   


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Hackers are now targeting the children of corporate executives in elaborate ransomware attacks

Charles Carmakal, the CTO of Mandiant, a cyber security firm and Google subsidiary, said hackers ar…

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Microsoft's senior executives targeted in Russian hackers' password spray attack

The Russian hackers, called Midnight Blizzard, infiltrated a small percentage of corporate email ac…

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Microsoft says Russian hackers attacked it to find information about themselves

Microsoft announced Friday that it detected an attack on its systems by Midnight Blizzard, the same…

Lakshmi Varanasi   


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Could your personal smartphone be hacked to explode like the pagers in Lebanon?

Deadly explosions in Lebanon linked to rigged pagers have raised concerns about the safety of moder…

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Should your company pay cybercriminals after a ransomware attack? It depends.

Cybersecurity experts share strategies for managing ransomware attacks and deciding whether to pay …

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The price of ransomware attacks is skyrocketing and government agencies are paying the most

Ransomware hackers are demanding ever more money for hijacked data. Government agencies and lower e…

Kenneth Niemeyer   


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Police around the world teamed up in their biggest effort yet to takedown hackers, but cybercrime is hard to stem

"Operation Endgame" led to the dismantling of more than 100 malicious computer servers worldwide, b…

Natalie Musumeci   


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Hackers from China and Russia are finding cracks in Microsoft's security

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued an emergency directive this week urg…

Grace Eliza Goodwin   


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Pro-Russia hackers are breaking into critical American and European infrastructure, security agencies warn

Pro-Russia hackers are targeting vulnerable infrastructure systems in the US and Europe, warns an a…

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The SEC says a hacker pulled off a 'SIM swap' attack on a cell phone to get control of the regulator's X account this month

A hacker gained control of an SEC cell phone number, reset the password for the @SECGov account, an…

Yuheng Zhan   


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A water tower in Texas suddenly started overflowing. It may be the work of Russian hackers.

Cybersecurity experts say a Russian hacking group targeted a Texas water system in January, a rare…

Kenneth Niemeyer   


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Hackers selling new malware on Telegram that targets macOS users

Threat actors are selling a new malware called -- Atomic macOS Stealer (AMOS) on the Telegram chann…

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North Korean hackers are laundering millions worth of crypto through a sanctioned 'mixer'

North Korea-backed hackers are using a mixer sanctioned by the US to launder funds stolen in a hack…

Yuheng Zhan   


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Hackers selling X Gold accounts on dark web for phishing, scams: Report

Cybercriminals are profiting from X "Gold" verification badge by selling compromised accounts for p…

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella worries hackers could cause a 'breakdown of world order'

Satya Nadella said there's a real risk of a "breakdown of world order" if nations don't come up wit…

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Walmart says hackers took over some Spark drivers' accounts and had access to their Social Security numbers

Walmart said hackers had access to about 200 Spark gig worker accounts over the course of two month…

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Pro-Navalny hackers accessed a database on Russian convicts, and lowered the price of prison shop food while they were there: report

Hackers reportedly breached Russia's prison system network, supporting late Alexey Navalny and clai…

Mia Jankowicz