Microsoft has blamed a Chinese cyber-espionage group for attacks on its mail server software. The tech giant said the hackers belonged to a state-backed group, which was a “highly skilled and sophisticated actor”. In a blog post, Microsoft said the hacking campaign made use of four previously undetected vulnerabilities in different versions of the software. […]
Audio-only social network Clubhouse has confirmed that a user managed to stream content from the app on their website. The app allows users to participate in public or private audio chatrooms, promising that the content has to be experienced live and is not recorded. US cyber-security researchers said a user found a way to stream […]
About 30,000 Mac devices have been infected with a mysterious piece of malware. The “unusual” Silver Sparrow strain silently affected systems in more than 150 countries around the world. It was discovered by researchers at security company Red Canary, who have yet to determine its purpose. Apple says it has taken steps to restrict the […]
In many ways, cybersecurity has always been a contest; vendors race to develop security products that can identify and mitigate any threats, while cybercriminals aim to develop malware and exploits capable of bypassing protections. With the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI), however, this combative exchange between attackers and defenders is about to become more complex […]
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A few weeks ago, on a routine company video call, one of the tech groups decided to prank the boss and five of them turned up looking like him. “It was very spooky. They used a publicity still of me and the person in the publicity still was blinking, moving his head, smiling, talking, saying things […]
Facebook is being sued for “losing control” of the data of about a million users in England and Wales. The alleged failings were revealed in the Cambridge Analytica scandal, where harvested data was used for advertising during elections. Journalist Peter Jukes, leading the action, claims his data was compromised. Facebook told BBC News there was […]
Oldsmar, Florida, experienced one of the biggest fears in cybersecurity Friday — hackers looking to poison its water supply. It’s the kind of breach that has been warned about for years but is rarely seen. Experts say the hack, which was addressed quickly, is a prime example of why the cybersecurity of the U.S. water […]
A collective of anti-fascist Israeli hackers have broken into a website of a group allied to the white-supremacist Ku Klux Klan (KKK). The hackers subsequently published names, photos and other personal information about members of the Patriotic Brigade Knights, which they had scraped, on social media. They also replaced some of the site’s content with […]
Normally when a data breach occurs, the cybercriminals responsible may leak the usernames and passwords stolen from one organization or company. However, a new compilation recently posted on an online hacking forum contains more than 3.2bn unique pairs of cleartext emails and passwords gathered from past leaks. As reported by CyberNews, this new data leak […]