The days of the company’s “don’t be evil” mantra are long gone. Switching away isn't as hard as you might think.

One in 4 Android phones impacted by a critical security vulnerability that allowed hackers to access locked and protected ...

Security experts warn against using AI-generated passwords after finding predictable patterns in outputs from ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude that make them vulnerable to attacks. PCWorld reports that AI ...

Salt Typhoon is by far one of the most prolific hacking groups in recent years, breaching some of the top American phone ...

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A new phishing campaign is impersonating Google’s account security checks to trick users into installing a malicious web app that steals passwords, passcodes, and other sensitive data directly from ...

A 22-year-old Alabama man pleaded guilty to extortion, cyberstalking, and computer fraud charges after hijacking the social media accounts of hundreds of young women (including minors).

Researchers link Silver Dragon APT to APT41 after attacks on government entities using Cobalt Strike, DNS tunneling, and Google Drive-based C2.

A government customer of sanctioned spyware maker Intellexa hacked the phone of a prominent journalist in Angola, according to Amnesty International, the latest case of targeting someone in civil ...

The Fulu Foundation, a nonprofit that pays out bounties for removing user-hostile features, is hunting for a way to keep Ring cameras from sending data to Amazon—without breaking the hardware. The ad ...

Researchers say they’ve discovered a supply-chain attack flooding repositories with malicious packages that contain invisible code, a technique that’s flummoxing traditional defenses designed to ...