Hackers are 'using your friends’ WhatsApp accounts' to take over your computer: Report

Cybercriminals are exploiting WhatsApp to infiltrate computers globally. By hijacking trusted accounts, attackers send ...
Bleeping Computer

Hacker arrested for KMSAuto malware campaign with 2.8 million downloads

A Lithuanian national has been arrested for his alleged involvement in infecting 2.8 million systems with clipboard-stealing malware disguised as the KMSAuto tool for illegally activating Windows and ...
Forbes

WhatsApp And Meta Pay Hackers $4 Million — What To Know

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Meta has confirmed that, as it celebrates the 15th anniversary ...
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Hackers can own your computer in under 5 minutes - then the real threat gets bigger

Hacking is no longer just about stolen passwords and bank accounts. What starts with one compromised computer quickly opens into a much darker world of ransomware, corporate espionage, state-backed ...
The New York Times

Google Says Criminal Hackers Used A.I. to Find a Major Software Flaw

The company said that it had identified, for the first time, hackers using artificial intelligence to discover an unknown bug. The attempted attack represents “a taste of what’s to come,” one expert ...
TechCrunch

North Korean hackers blamed for hijacking popular Axios open source project to spread malware

A suspected North Korean hacker has hijacked and modified a popular open source software development tool to deliver malware that could put millions of developers at risk of being compromised. On ...
Bleeping Computer

Hackers Are After the Gaps in Your Vulnerability Program: Here's Their Playbook

A forum thread titled “Hacking for Profit. Working method” offers a rare glance into how underground communities pass information about vulnerability exploitation and hacking techniques in a form of ...
Los Angeles Times

Hacker used Anthropic’s Claude AI to steal Mexican government data

The unknown Claude user wrote Spanish-language prompts for the chatbot to act as an elite hacker, finding vulnerabilities in government networks, writing computer scripts to exploit them and ...
SecurityWeek

Hacker Conversations: Isira Adithya, the Evolution of an Ethical Hacker

Hacker conversation with Sri Lanka-born Isira Adithya, a successful bug bounty hunter driven by the desire to bend systems to ...
MIT Technology Review

Hackers made death threats against this security researcher. Big mistake.

Allison Nixon had helped arrest dozens of members of the Com, a loose affiliation of online groups responsible for violence and hacking campaigns. Then she became a target. The threats started in ...
TechCrunch

Microsoft says hackers are exploiting critical zero-day bugs to target Windows and Office users

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 ...