Hackers stories - Page 4

Cybercriminals are actively abusing the names of artists and songs nominated for a Grammy 2020 award, in order to spread malware.

Warner Bros Pictures and Lana Wachowski are bringing back Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss for another installment of The Matrix.

The gaming industry is becoming a prime target for cyber criminals, with 12 billion credential attacks in 17 months, says Akamai's new report.

Hackers are escalating their use of 'island hopping', targeting less secure third-party suppliers to infiltrate larger organisations' networks and wreak havoc.

The study finds using a number of the top password managers is no better than putting your passwords in a text file and saving it to your desktop.

Hackers in Canada strike McDonald's app, racking up CAD $500 in fast food charges. McDonald's blames security flaws; users left with empty banks and bellies.

The next evolution of ransomware, escalating nation-state attacks, biometric hacking, Wi-Fi protocol security, and Die Hard fiction becomes reality.

As companies integrate more digital tools into their business, many of them remain unaware of the risk code-signing certificates are exposing them to.

Europol has revealed details surrounding the arrest of a 25-year-old coder who allegedly helped to extort a British organisation.

Endace's EMEA senior director shares why agility is fundamental to cybersecurity, enforcing that if it isn't top of the agenda, it should be.

Cybercriminals are developing new technologies to not only penetrate system defences, but also to dwell within a company environment for longer.

The power grid in modern countries may not be as secure as you think, as reports have emerged revealing hackers have breached Germany's supply.

Centrify urges the end of passwords, citing their ineffectiveness and the rise of smarter security measures like two-factor authentication and biometrics.

How much are cybercriminals earning for their efforts? A new study by Bromium suggests that figure could be as much as US$2 million per job.

Cybereason created a fake financial services company with weak cybersecurity to reveal how cybercriminals are using bots to do all the grunt work.

It can take hackers less than an hour to steal data from an organisation, and most of the time their targets don’t even detect the attacks.

Respondents in APAC put forth highest IT budget allocation to security, but overall executives allocate security less than 10% of their budget.

Check Point has released a 'cryptomining 101' document that details how cybercriminals hack into devices to steal their CPU power for illicit mining.

It’s no secret that web browsers store a substantial amount of sensitive information about their users - hackers are taking advantage of this.

After the allegations about Emirates' customer data policies emerged, High-Tech Bridge ran a test on the site's security - with interesting results.