The Chinese government has deployed an update to its national censorship tool, known as the Great Firewall (GFW), to block …
Hackers are defacing Reddit with pro-Trump messages
Image: ZDNet A massive hack has hit Reddit today after tens of Reddit channels have been hacked and defaced to …
Black Hat: Hackers are using skeleton keys to target chip vendors
Targeted attacks against semiconductor companies in Taiwan may not be well-known, but this does not mean the ripple effect of …
Black Hat: Hackers can remotely hijack enterprise, healthcare Temi robots
Robots used in hospitals and care homes to assist patients and the vulnerable can be fully hijacked by cyberattackers. Black …
Cluster of 295 Chrome extensions caught hijacking Google and Bing search results
More than 80 million Chrome users have installed one of 295 Chrome extensions that hijack and insert ads inside Google …
Ransomware gang publishes tens of GBs of internal data from LG and Xerox
Image: LG, Simone Hutsch, ZDNet The operators of the Maze ransomware have published today tens of GB of internal data …
GandCrab ransomware distributor arrested in Belarus
In a press release last week, the Minister of Internal Affairs of Belarus announced the arrest of a 31-year-old man …
Phishing campaigns, from first to last victim, take 21h on average
Getty Images/iStockphoto A mixed team of security researchers from Google, PayPal, Samsung, and Arizona State University has spent an entire …
How the FBI tracked down the Twitter hackers
Image: Volodymyr Hryshchenko, ZDNet, Twitter After earlier today US law enforcement charged three individuals for the recent Twitter hack, with …
EU sanctions China, Russia, and North Korea for past hacks
European Union bits and bytes in ripple waving pattern with glowing EU stars Getty Images/iStockphoto The European Union has imposed …