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 »
Enlarge / Critical infrastructure sites such as this oil refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, rely on safety systems. reader comments 27 with 20 posters participating Share this story For years, the hackers behind the malware known as Triton or Trisis have stood out as a uniquely dangerous threat to critical infrastructure: a group of digital… Read More »
bjdlzx | Getty Images reader comments 75 with 45 posters participating Share this story More than 22,000 miles above Earth, the KA-SAT is locked in orbit. Traveling at 7,000 miles per hour, in sync with the planet’s rotation, the satellite beams high-speed Internet down to people across Europe. Since 2011, it has helped homeowners, businesses,… Read More »
Enlarge / US Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technology Anne Neuberger speaking during a March 21 White House daily press briefing. reader comments 87 with 48 posters participating, including story author Share this story The Biden administration on Monday warned that it believes Russian state hackers may step up a cyber offensive… Read More »
Wired | Getty Images reader comments 5 with 5 posters participating Share this story For years, Russia’s cybercrime groups have acted with relative impunity. The Kremlin and local law enforcement have largely turned a blind eye to disruptive ransomware attacks as long as they didn’t target Russian companies. Despite direct pressure on Vladimir Putin to… Read More »
Elena Lacey | Getty Images reader comments 7 with 6 posters participating Share this story On Thursday, hackers defaced a Russian Space Research Institute website and leaked files that they allege are stolen from Roscosmos, the Russian space agency. Their message? “Leave Ukraine alone else Anonymous will f*ck you up even more.” Meanwhile a DDoS… Read More »
Getty Images reader comments 28 with 23 posters participating Share this story Millions of WordPress sites have received a forced update over the past day to fix a critical vulnerability in a plugin called UpdraftPlus. The mandatory patch came at the request of UpdraftPlus developers because of the severity of the vulnerability, which allows untrusted… Read More »
Getty Images reader comments 91 with 54 posters participating, including story author Share this story This is a story about how a simple software bug allowed the fourth-biggest cryptocurrency theft ever. Hackers stole more than $323 million in cryptocurrency by exploiting a vulnerability in Wormhole, a Web-based service that allows inter-blockchain transactions. Wormhole lets people move… Read More »