Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Stephanie Keith/Getty Images On Dec 1, 2018, Vincenzo Iozzo, a world-renowned hacker, sent an email asking whether he should try ...

A notorious hacking group has claimed responsibility for last year’s data breaches at Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) and published the data that they claim to have ...

Microsoft has rolled out fixes for security vulnerabilities in Windows and Office, which the company says are being actively abused by hackers to break into people’s computers. The exploits are ...

A threat actor is compromising NGINX servers in a campaign that hijacks user traffic and reroutes it through the attacker's backend infrastructure. NGINX is open-source software for web traffic ...

Last year, the creator of Notepad++ rolled out an update for the text and source code editor after security experts reported that bad actors were hijacking its update mechanism to redirect traffic to ...

North Korean hackers are running tailored campaigns using AI-generated video and the ClickFix technique to deliver malware for macOS and Windows to targets in the cryptocurrency sector. The threat ...

An Asian cyber-espionage group has spent the past year breaking into computer systems belonging to governments and critical infrastructure organizations in more than 37 countries, according to the ...

Google called the attacks “model extraction,” a process Medium defines as: “an attacker distills the knowledge from your expensive model into a new, cheaper one they control.” It’s becoming an ...

Russian-state hackers wasted no time exploiting a critical Microsoft Office vulnerability that allowed them to compromise the devices inside diplomatic, maritime, and transport organizations in more ...

In the latest illustration of how quickly attackers can exploit newly disclosed flaws, Russia's notorious APT28 cyber-espionage group has begun abusing a recently patched Microsoft vulnerability to ...

*** new data security report reveals hackers are getting smarter. It says the number of victim notices dropped sharply in the past year, from 1.36 billion in 2024 to about 279 million in 2025. But ...

TL;DR: Notepad++ was compromised for six months, but it wasn't the software itself which the exploit leveraged, but its hosting provider. An investigation into the attack has just been concluded with ...