hackers
Public charging stations seem convenient when your phone is on its last legs, but the FBI notified consumers to be careful. The FBI and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) say that hackers have found a way to hijack public charging stations to intentionally upload malware and software that allows access to personal information on phones, […]
Indigo, Canada’s largest bookstore chain, faced a cybersecurity breach earlier this week leading to the shutdown of its website and payment systems. The company, which also owns Coles and Chapters, said that no customer credit card or debit card information had been compromised in the hack. They also confirmed that customers’ in-store credits, known as […]
Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook Inc, has alerted FB users about app-focused efforts to steal their login information. In a recently shared statement, reps from Meta—specifically, David Agranovich (Director of Threat Disruption) and Ryan Victory (Malware Discovery and Detection Engineer)—announced they had identified more than 400 malicious apps across iOS and Android. These […]
While Gunna has recently gotten into the cryptocurrency game by way of NFTs, he’s now being accused of a crypto scam and has since responded. “To my followers and fans! I didn’t know anything about this ‘pushin peth’ Scam,” he tweeted on Monday. “Someone hacked my Twitter and I immediately deleted the tweet! I would never […]
Following new findings of major spyware vulnerability, Apple has issued emergency security updates to its iOS, MacOS, and WatchOS products. According to The Hill, researchers at Citizen Lab describe the spyware as a “zero-day zero-click exploit” software targeted against iMessage specifically. “This spyware can do everything an iPhone user can do on their device and more,” […]
The blockchain site Poly Network said hackers found a way into its system and then stole thousands of digital tokens with an estimated value of more than $600 million, making it perhaps the biggest cryptocurrency heist ever. Poly Network is a Defi (meaning decentralized finance) provider that lets users move tokens on one blockchain to another network. The company posted […]
Personal information for more than 533 million Facebook users across 106 different countries was published over the weekend in what’s being described as a “low level hacking forum.” Of the more than 533 million reported users, more than 32 million of them are said to be based in the U.S. Information shared to the hacker-utilized site—as […]
On Monday officials in Pinellas County, Florida held a press conference in which they made an announcement that an unidentified hacker had remotely gotten into a panel that controls the water treatment system for the city of Oldsmar, and then greatly bumped up the amount of sodium hydroxide (a.k.a. lye) in the water supply. Pinellas County Sheriff […]
Despite claims from the White House that Donald Trump’s Twitter account was not hacked back in October, Dutch prosecutors have confirmed otherwise. Victor Gevers alleged he got into Trump’s account on Oct. 16 after he guessed the President’s password, which he claimed was “maga2020!” Both the White House and Twitter denied reports that Trump was hacked, […]
As the race to develop the COVID-19 vaccine continues, it appears that suspected North Korean hackers attempted to access AstraZeneca’s systems in the last weeks. Reuters reports that the hackers pretended to be job recruiters and used LinkedIn and WhatsApp to contact AstraZeneca employees with false job offers. Sources told the news outlet that the […]
