A hacking group dubbed 'Elusive Comet' targets cryptocurrency users in social engineering attacks that exploit Zoom's remote ...

hackers break into networks and hold data hostage in exchange for a ransom, usually cryptocurrency. In 2013, Swansea police paid off scammers who encrypted several files in their computer system ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X A depiction of a computer hacker at work. Photo from Pixabay. A Van Nuys man is expected to ...

When quantum computers become commonplace, current cryptographic systems will become obsolete. Scientists are racing to get ahead of the problem and keep our data secure.

A hacker breached the GitLab repositories of multinational car-rental company Europcar Mobility Group and stole source code for Android and iOS applications, as well as some personal information ...

If we consider the term ‘hacker’ as a genus, a computer hacker is a species of the genus hacker. Other hackers could belong to other species such as lifehackers, locksmiths, music hackers, and mind ...

Russia has long been a breeding ground for some of the most aggressive hackers in the world. As an overture to the February 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine, those hackers launched a salvo of cyber ...

An Iran-linked hacking group claims to have breached the computer network of a sensitive Israeli nuclear installation in an incident declared by the ‘Anonymous’ hackers as a protest against the war in ...

A computer hacker who was part of a criminal gang that stole data from hundreds of millions of people and sold it on the dark web was jailed in the United States on Tuesday. A computer hacker who was ...