Security researchers say they have identified a hack-for-hire group targeting journalists, activists, and government officials across the Middle East and North Africa. The hackers used phishing ...

Hackers reportedly gained access to personal information about Los Angeles Police Department officers, Internal Affairs documents and more in a breach of a major LA city office. A trove of sensitive ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A hack of the L.A. city attorney’s office compromised 7.7 terabytes of sensitive LAPD records. Leaked materials ...

Thousands of men are members of Telegram groups and channels that advertise and sell hacking and surveillance services that can be used to harass friends, wives and girlfriends, and former partners, ...

The FBI has labeled a suspected Chinese cyber intrusion into a government surveillance system a “major incident” that poses risks to U.S. national security, according to a senior law enforcement ...

A new gene therapy is giving people born deaf the chance to hear, often within just weeks. In a small but groundbreaking study, researchers delivered a working copy of a key hearing gene directly into ...

A breach Tuesday of the widely used Axios software library is the latest in a string of incidents exposing risks in the systems that underpin how modern software is built. Developers use Axios to ...

A major decentralised finance (DeFi) platform has suffered a suspected exploit exceeding $270 million, with onchain data showing large volumes of assets rapidly moved to a single wallet. Blockchain ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Pro-Iranian hacking group Handala claims credit for breaching FBI Director Kash Patel’s personal email account, ...

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Iran-linked hackers successfully broke into FBI Director Kash Patel’s personal email, the Department of Justice confirmed to Reuters on Friday. Reuters could not authenticate the leaked emails ...

The European Commission, the European Union's main executive body, is investigating a security breach after a threat actor gained access to the Commission's Amazon cloud environment. Although the EU's ...