Tag Archives: hacking

North Korean hackers return, target infosec researchers in new operation

Enlarge In January, Google and Microsoft outed what they said was North Korean government-sponsored hackers targeting security researchers. The hackers spent weeks using fake Twitter profiles—purportedly belonging to vulnerability researchers—before unleashing an Internet Explorer zero-day and a malicious Visual Studio Project, both of which installed custom malware. Now, the same hackers are back, a Google… Read More »

Hackers backdoor PHP source code after breaching internal git server

Enlarge (credit: BeeBright / Getty Images / iStockphoto) A hacker compromised the server used to distribute the PHP programming language and added a backdoor to source code that would have made websites vulnerable to complete takeover, members of the open source project said. Two updates pushed to the PHP Git server over the weekend added… Read More »

Hackers access security cameras inside Cloudflare, jails, and hospitals

Getty Images reader comments 27 with 24 posters participating Share this story Hackers say they broke into the network of Silicon Valley startup Verkada and gained access to live video feeds from more than 150,000 surveillance cameras the company manages for Cloudflare, Tesla, and a host of other organizations. The group published videos and images… Read More »

Trump’s is one of 15,000 Gab accounts that just got hacked

reader comments 148 with 81 posters participating Share this story The founder of the far-right social media platform Gab said that the private account of former President Donald Trump was among the data stolen and publicly released by hackers who recently breached the site. In a statement on Sunday, founder Andrew Torba used a transphobic… Read More »

Hackers tied to Russia’s GRU targeted the US grid for years

reader comments 20 with 17 posters participating Share this story For all the nation-state hacker groups that have targeted the United States power grid—and even successfully breached American electric utilities—only the Russian military intelligence group known as Sandworm has been brazen enough to trigger actual blackouts, shutting the lights off in Ukraine in 2015 and… Read More »

France ties Russia’s Sandworm to a multiyear hacking spree

Enlarge / The logo of the French national cybersecurity agency Agence Nationale de la securite des systemes d’information(ANSSI) taken at ANSSI headquarters in Paris. reader comments 29 with 14 posters participating Share this story The Russian military hackers known as Sandworm, responsible for everything from blackouts in Ukraine to NotPetya, the most destructive malware in… Read More »

Ticketmaster admits it hacked rival company before it went out of business

reader comments 32 with 29 posters participating Share this story Ticketmaster has agreed to pay a $10 million criminal fine after admitting its employees repeatedly used stolen passwords and other means to hack a rival ticket sales company. The fine, which is part of a deferred prosecution agreement Ticketmaster entered with federal prosecutors, resolves criminal… Read More »

2020 had its share of memorable hacks and breaches. Here are the top 10

reader comments 15 with 14 posters participating Share this story 2020 was a tough year for a lot of reasons, not least of which were breaches and hacks that visited pain on end users, customers, and the organizations that were targeted. The ransomware menace dominated headlines, with an endless stream of compromises hitting schools, governments,… Read More »