Enlarge / Computer chip with Chinese flag, 3d conceptual illustration. reader comments 56 with 35 posters participating Share this story Microsoft said it has seized control of servers that a China-based hacking group was using to compromise targets that align with that country’s geopolitical interests. The hacking group, which Microsoft has dubbed Nickel, has been ..
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Yuriko Nakao | Getty Images reader comments 75 with 55 posters participating Share this story The hacker who breached the Poly Network crypto platform says the theft was just “for fun :)” and that the hacker is now returning the stolen coins. The hacker also claimed that the tokens had been transferred to the hacker’s ..
reader comments 84 with 65 posters participating Share this story China state hackers are compromising large numbers of home and office routers for use in a vast and ongoing attack against organizations in France, authorities from that county said. The hacking group—known in security circles as APT31, Zirconium, Panda, and other names—has historically conducted espionage ..
Getty Images reader comments 3 with 3 posters participating Share this story Microsoft said on Tuesday that hackers operating in China exploited a zero-day vulnerability in a SolarWinds product. According to Microsoft, the hackers were, in all likelihood, targeting software companies and the US Defense industry. SolarWinds disclosed the zero-day on Monday, after receiving notification ..
reader comments 31 with 25 posters participating Share this story The nation-state hackers who orchestrated the SolarWinds supply chain attack compromised a Microsoft worker’s computer and used the access to launch targeted attacks against company customers, Microsoft said in a terse statement published late on a Friday afternoon. The hacking group also compromised three entities ..
A cybersecurity specialist identified a new method to “hack” ATMs to use only a mobile phone with NFC. June 25, 2021 2 min read This article was translated from our Spanish edition using AI technologies. Errors may exist due to this process. A cybersecurity specialist identified a new method to “hack” ATMs to use only ..
reader comments 31 with 27 posters participating Share this story Microsoft has patched a critical zero-day vulnerability that North Korean hackers were using to target security researchers with malware. The in-the-wild attacks came to light in January in posts from Google and Microsoft. Hackers backed by the North Korean government, both posts said, spent weeks ..
Getty Images reader comments 30 with 22 posters participating Share this story By now, most people know that hackers tied to the Russian government compromised the SolarWinds software build system and used it to push a malicious update to some 18,000 of the company’s customers. On Monday, researchers published evidence that hackers from China also ..
reader comments 38 with 22 posters participating Share this story Ukraine has accused the Russian government of hacking into one of its government Web portals and planting malicious documents that would install malware on end users’ computers. “The purpose of the attack was the mass contamination of information resources of public authorities, as this system ..
Getty Images reader comments 15 with 13 posters participating Share this story Email management provider Mimecast said that hackers have compromised a digital certificate it issued and used it to target select customers who use it to encrypt data they sent and received through the company’s cloud-based service. In a post published on Tuesday, the ..