The makers of Flipper Zero have responded to the Canadian government's plan to ban the device in the country, arguing that it is wrongfully accused of facilitating car thefts. [...]

Users of the social media platform X (Twitter) have often been left puzzled when they click on a post with an external link but arrive at an entirely unexpected website from the one displayed. A Twitter ad spotted below by a security researcher shows forbes.com as its destination …

Enlarge / Aerial view of a sewage treatment plant. (credit: Getty Images) The Biden administration on Tuesday warned the nation’s governors that drinking water and wastewater utilities in their states are facing “disabling cyberattacks” by hostile foreign nations that are targeting mission-critical plant operations. “Disabling cyberattacks are striking water …

Three cybersecurity researchers discovered close to 19 million plaintext passwords exposed on the public internet by misconfigured instances of Firebase, a Google platform for hosting databases, cloud computing, and app development. [...]

U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan warned governors today that hackers are "striking" critical infrastructure across the country's water sector. [...]

The Cyber Crime Center (DC3) of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) says it has reached the milestone of processing its 50,000th vulnerability report submitted by 5,635 researchers since its inception in November 2016. [...]

CISA, the NSA, the FBI, and several other agencies in the U.S. and worldwide warned critical infrastructure leaders to protect their systems against the Chinese Volt Typhoon hacking group. [...]

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) warned today that scammers are impersonating its employees to steal thousands of dollars from Americans. [...]

The Ukrainian cyber police, in collaboration with investigators from the national police (ГУНП), have arrested three individuals who are accused of hijacking over 100 million emails and Instagram accounts worldwide. [...]

A new destructive malware named AcidPour was spotted in the wild, featuring data-wiper functionality and targeting Linux x86 IoT and networking devices. [...]

With the growing number of data breaches and cyberattacks, insurance premiums are increasing. Learn more from Specops Software about how securing an Activity Directory could lead to lower cyber insurance premiums. [...]

A sophisticated hacking campaign attributed to a Chinese Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) group known as 'Earth Krahang' has breached 70 organizations and targeted at least 116 across 45 countries. [...]

Microsoft has announced that RSA keys shorter than 2048 bits will soon be deprecated in Windows Transport Layer Security (TLS) to provide increased security. [...]

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Japan-based IT behemoth Fujitsu said it has discovered malware on its corporate network that may have allowed the people responsible to steal personal information from customers or other parties. “We confirmed the presence of malware on several of our company's work computers, and as a …

Electronic Arts has postponed the North American (NA) finals of the ongoing Apex Legends Global Series (ALGS) after hackers compromised players mid-match during the tournament. [...]

Japanese tech giant Fujitsu discovered that several of its systems were infected by malware and warns that the hackers stole customer data. [...]

NIST just-released its Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 2.0, which seems to have SaaS security in mind. Learn more from Adaptive Shield about how the NIST 2.0 framework can help detect SaaS threats. [...]

AT&T says a massive trove of data impacting 71 million people did not originate from its systems after a hacker leaked it on a cybercrime forum and claimed it was stolen in a 2021 breach of the company. [...]

Researchers have demonstrated a new acoustic side-channel attack on keyboards that can deduce user input based on their typing patterns, even in poor conditions, such as environments with noise. [...]

The ransomware actor 'ShadowSyndicate' was observed scanning for servers vulnerable to CVE-2024-23334, a directory traversal vulnerability in the aiohttp Python library. [...]

Enlarge / Some ASCII art of our favorite visual cliche for a hacker. (credit: Getty Images) Researchers have discovered a new way to hack AI assistants that uses a surprisingly old-school method: ASCII art. It turns out that chat-based large language models such as GPT-4 get so distracted trying to …

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) disclosed a cyber incident on Friday after unknown attackers breached 11 IMF email accounts earlier this year. [...]

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) is recovering $2.3 million worth of cryptocurrency linked to a "pig butchering" fraud scheme that victimized at least 37 people across the United States. [...]

PornHub has now added Texas to its blocklist, preventing users in the state from accessing its site in protest of age verification laws. [...]

Moldovan national Sandu Boris Diaconu has been sentenced to 42 months in prison for operating E-Root, a major online marketplace that sold access to hacked computers worldwide. [...]