Enlarge / CHINA – 2022/07/25: In this photo illustration, the cryptocurrency exchange trading platform Binance logo is displayed on a smartphone screen. (Photo Illustration by Budrul Chukrut/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) reader comments 98 with 76 posters participating Share this story Hackers have stolen around $570 million in tokens from Binance, in a rare blow… Read More »
Marco Rosario Venturini Autieri/Getty Images reader comments 14 with 12 posters participating Share this story For decades, virtualization software has offered a way to vastly multiply computers’ efficiency, hosting entire collections of computers as “virtual machines” on just one physical machine. And for almost as long, security researchers have warned about the potential dark side… Read More »
gwengoat | Getty Images reader comments 97 with 44 posters participating Share this story The Ukrainian government on Monday warned that the Kremlin is planning to carry out “massive cyberattacks” targeting power grids and other critical infrastructure in Ukraine and in the territories of its allies. “By the cyberattacks, the enemy will try to increase… Read More »
Enlarge (credit: FT montage | Getty Images | Dreamstime) Chinese university students have been lured to work at a secretive technology company that masked the true nature of their jobs: researching western targets for spying and translating hacked documents as part of Beijing’s industrial-scale intelligence regime. The Financial Times has identified and contacted 140 potential… Read More »
Getty Images reader comments 88 with 54 posters participating Share this story Last year, Tesla issued an update that made its vehicles easier to start after being unlocked with their NFC key cards. Now, a researcher has shown how the feature can be exploited to steal cars. For years, drivers who used their Tesla NFC… Read More »
Getty Images reader comments 45 with 30 posters participating Share this story For years, Dmitriy Sergeyevich Badin sat atop the FBI’s most wanted list. The Russian government-backed hacker has been suspected of cyber attacks on Germany’s Bundestag and the 2016 Olympics, held in Rio de Janeiro. A few weeks into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, his… Read More »
Enlarge / VPNfilter had a total of nine modular tools discovered thus far by researchers, potentially turning thousands of routers into a versatile attack platform. reader comments 11 with 11 posters participating Share this story Previously unknown “zero-day” software vulnerabilities are mysterious and intriguing as a concept. But they’re even more noteworthy when hackers are… Read More »
cravetiger | Getty Images reader comments 10 with 9 posters participating Share this story Malware designed to target industrial control systems like power grids, factories, water utilities, and oil refineries represents a rare species of digital badness. So when the United States government warns of a piece of code built to target not just one… Read More »
Getty Images | Sundry Photography reader comments 54 with 32 posters participating Share this story More than half a decade has passed since the notorious Russian hackers known as Sandworm targeted an electrical transmission station north of Kyiv a week before Christmas in 2016, using a unique, automated piece of code to interact directly with… Read More »
Getty Images | 3DSculptor reader comments 77 with 51 posters participating Share this story Independent researchers and the United States military have become increasingly focused on orbiting satellites’ potential security vulnerabilities in recent years. These devices, which are built primarily with durability, reliability, and longevity in mind, were largely never intended to be ultra-secure. But… Read More »