According to independent researcher Kevin Beaumont, three organizations told him that devices inside their networks that had Notepad++ installed experienced “security incidents” that “resulted in hands on keyboard threat actors,” meaning the hackers were able to take direct control using a web-based interface. All three of the organizations, Beaumont said, have interests in East Asia....Read More
There’s a moment in many executive war rooms when a CISO realizes their organization’s carefully maintained disaster recovery plan is completely useless. The backup system that would have saved them from a flood, a power outage, or a botched software update has just restored something far more dangerous than lost data: an attacker’s back door....Read More
The European Commission – the same regulatory body that slaps big fines on tech heavyweights like Apple and Meta and issues AI safety guidelines – was hacked in March, with attackers stealing a ton of data. In a blog post detailing the attack, the EC said it had discovered a cyber attack on its Europa.eu...Read More
The first external signs of the chaos about to hit JLR, Britain’s largest automotive employer, came on the quiet last Sunday of August. Managers at a factory in Halewood, Merseyside, told industry contacts there might have been a hack – although it was not clear then just how bad the situation was. That changed quickly...Read More
Lunchbox’s Robinhood account where he bought stocks to invest with Bobby and Amy, but now just Amy, has been hacked. Bobby and Amy had contributed money to it over the course of the last few years. Bobby eventually felt uneasy about the arrangement and asked for his money back. After taking some time, Bobby did...Read More
Peacock has released a full trailer for its upcoming thriller The Copenhagen Test, starring Simu Liu as a man with a problem that is very much all in his head. As in, Liu’s character has literally had his brain hacked, and since he works as a government intelligence analyst, he has a big problem. The...Read More
Popular social platform Discord has suffered a data breach—though technically, it wasn’t Discord itself that was hacked. A third-party customer support provider was compromised, allowing attackers to access Discord’s user data. Either way, it’s Discord users who feel the impact. The breach, which happened on September 20, didn’t involve a direct attack on Discord’s servers....Read More
If you’re an iPhone user, there’s a good chance your device could be at risk of hacking or malicious spyware. That’s because Apple has just issued two new fixes for security holes in its WebKit browser engine that’s being used to hack into people’s devices — but you can only get the protections if your...Read More
Hackers may have stolen the government ID photos of around 70,000 Discord users, the company said Wednesday evening. In a statement, Discord, the popular chat app, said the breach affected people who had contacted the platform’s customer support or trust and safety teams to verify their ages and that it was emailing the people whose...Read More
There is a whole shady industry for people who want to monitor and spy on their families. Multiple app makers promote and advertise their software — often referred to as stalkerware — to jealous partners who can use these apps to access their victims’ phones remotely. Yet, despite how sensitive this personal data is, an...Read More
