Tag: hack
Teenage Hacker Sentenced for Selling Personal Data Online
A teenage hacker pleaded guilty and ordered to pay £407,359, for providing freelance hacking and money laundering services.
According to the Norwich Crown Court, Elliot...
Smart Speakers can be turned into Cyber-Weapons to make Aural Attacks:...
Security researchers revealed that attackers can hack modern audio gadgets to make deafening sounds. According to Matt Wixey, a cybersecurity researcher at technology consulting...
Why Microsoft paid $4.4 million bug bounties to Hackers
Microsoft recently admitted that it paid around $4.4 million to hackers as bug bounties in the past 12 months. The technology giant confirmed this...
Data breach exposed One Million Payment Card details in South Korea
Security researchers discovered that hackers have compromised more than one million payment card records and posted for sale on the Dark Web since May...
State-backed Chinese attackers target multiple German-based companies
A number of firms in Germany have confirmed that they have been targeted by a state-backed Chinese hacker group. A report from public broadcaster...
Cybersecurity startup Securicy Data Solutions raises $1.2 million
Securicy Data Solutions Ltd recently secured $1.2 million in funding from private equity firms and angel investors, including Hub Angels, Panache Ventures, and Concrete...
Microsoft reveals election-related investigation findings
Microsoft says it has detected more than 740 intrusion attempts by state-sponsored attackers last year targeting the U.S.-based political parties, campaigns, and other democracy-focused...
Major fines amid data breach concerns
We may be in 2019, but that doesn’t mean that the world’s biggest brands have prepared themselves for the massive threats to cybersecurity. One...
Hackers injected older versions of Pale Moon browser with malware
Open source browser Pale Moon was breached, and hackers plugged malware into the browser. The hack which occurred in 2017 went undetected for nearly...
Attackers infect millions of Android phones with fake Samsung app
A suspicious third-party app called "Updates for Samsung" had more than 10 million download attempts to trick Android-based Samsung phone users into paying for...
