Brazil’s Polícia Federal announced the arrest of the hacker linked to a breach that leaked 2.9 billion records that included sensitive personal information, including some Social Security numbers.

A notorious hacker named USDoD, who is linked to the National Public Data and InfraGard breaches, has been arrested by Brazil's Polícia Federal in "Operation Data Breach". USDoD, aka EquationCorp ...

Update, Oct. 18, 2024: This story, originally published Oct. 17, includes new comments and mitigations from security experts. Hackers are becoming more crafty and sophisticated to avoid getting ...

Insurance giant Globe Life, which provides life and health insurance policies to millions of Americans, says it is being extorted by a hacker that has stolen customers’ sensitive data.

Government agencies in the U.S., Canada, and Australia believe that Iranian hackers are acting as initial access brokers and use brute-force techniques to gain access to organizations in the ...

US officials believe Chinese government-linked hackers targeted Eric Trump’s and Jared Kushner’s call and text data as the scale of a sweeping cyber-espionage campaign targeting senior ...

Investigators also found Council made some questionable searches from his personal computer: He later conducted internet searches for “SECGOV hack,” “telegram sim swap,” “how can I know ...

Recent incidents of hackers gaining control over household cleaning robots, using them to shout racist slurs, have exposed a dark side of smart home devices. These connected devices, equipped with ...

The scam involves a series of calls and emails purporting to be from Google, but actually powered by artificial intelligence on behalf of the hackers. It’s not the first scam aimed at Gmail and ...

WASHINGTON—The Chinese hackers who burrowed into the networks of U.S. telecommunications firms have used their deep access to target the phones of former President Donald Trump, his running mate ...

The call is part of a hacker’s attempt to take over your Gmail account. The hack also involves creating fake Gmail recovery emails and fake support emails meant to further convince the victim ...

For hackers seeking to maximize chaos, so-called denial-of-service attacks that knock targets offline with waves off junk traffic are typically more of a blunt cudgel than a weapon of mass ...