The United States military has known for years that enemies could use location data to track troops’ phones—and it’s also long been aware of easy fixes for the problem. The Pentagon adopted almost none of these protections, though, in spite… Read More "Cybercrime Crew Claims It Hacked Mike Lindell’s MyPillow"
WhatsApp said on Wednesday it is launching an AI chat function known as Incognito Chat that is built to allow users to converse privately with Meta AI—such that Meta itself cannot access the questions or answers. The feature is based… Read More "WhatsApp Adds Meta AI Chats That Are Built to Be Fully Private"
Every year, millions of phones are stolen. While thousands of iPhones are shipped to China and broken down for parts, criminals can make more money selling a device that has been unlocked and wiped. Now researchers have unpicked part of… Read More "Your iPhone Gets Stolen. Then the Hacking Begins"
For nearly a decade, the Pentagon was warned—by its own contractors, analysts, and intelligence agencies—that anyone with a credit card could buy a map of where American troops sleep, work, and store nuclear weapons. Now the bill has come due… Read More "The Pentagon Knew Enemies Could Track Troops’ Phones for Years. Now They Are"
A ransomware group is attempting to extort the electronics manufacturing giant Foxconn, claiming that it stole 8 terabytes of data from the company, including schematics and project details from customers including Dell, Google, Apple, and Nvidia. Foxconn did not immediately… Read More "Foxconn Ransomware Attack Shows Nothing Is Safe Forever"
“We would not say that every single phishing message we observed was definitively caused by a direct compromise of the hotel’s own internal systems,” the researcher says. Phishing messages could have been sent using information from other data breaches or… Read More "Scammers Are Using Your Real Hotel Reservations to Trick You With Spear-Phishing Attacks"
In the wake of attacks on CEOs, a nationwide protest movement targeting data centers, and increasing concerns about AI job replacement, federal intelligence agencies and domestic law enforcement are circulating reports with a new domestic target in mind: anti-technology extremists.… Read More "US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows"
Higher education has long been a target of ransomware gangs and data extortion attacks. But never before, perhaps, has a cyberattack against a single software platform so thoroughly disrupted the daily operations of thousands of schools across the United States.… Read More "The Canvas Hack Is a New Kind of Ransomware Debacle"
Cramming for finals is bad enough without the platform you use to do your schoolwork suddenly shutting down. Unfortunately for countless students across the US, that’s exactly what they faced on Thursday after Canvas went into “maintenance mode” following a… Read More "Hackable Robot Lawn Mower Unlocks a New Nightmare"
“Nation state issues are very serious and very real, but criminal actors still make up the vast majority of incidents that organizations deal with and many of those incidents are quite serious,” Hultquist adds. “Zero-day use by criminal actors has… Read More "The AI Era Is Creating a Bug Hunting Arms Race"
