Spyware attacks on journalists, human rights defenders, and political dissidents are no longer rare or exotic. In early 2025, WhatsApp notified roughly 90 users — many of them journalists and civil society members across Europe…
The merchandise website of FBI director Kash Patel was taken offline on Friday after reports that it had been hijacked by hackers trying to infect visitors with malware, as first reported by Straight Arrow News.…
Phone provider Trump Mobile has confirmed that it was exposing customers’ names, email addresses, mailing addresses, cell numbers, and order identifiers to the open internet. Chris Walker, a spokesperson for the Trump-branded phone maker, told…
An international coalition of law enforcement agencies announced Thursday that they took down a popular virtual private network service used by cybercriminals and arrested its administrator. The FBI said in an alert that First VPN…
President Trump’s namesake cellphone provider and smartphone maker Trump Mobile is leaking customer data, including mailing addresses and email addresses, according to reports. On Tuesday, YouTubers Coffeezilla and penguinz0, who both said they ordered Trump…
In an ongoing cyberattack, hackers have compromised several popular open source projects that software developers all over the world rely on. On Tuesday, cybersecurity firms StepSecurity and SafeDep warned of the latest wave of supply-chain…
President Trump and a delegation of U.S. officials left Beijing on Friday after two days of high-level talks with the Chinese government, led by President Xi Jinping. Before boarding Air Force One, White House staffers…
Earlier this week, hackers hijacked several open source projects used by dozens of companies and pushed updates designed to spread malware. This is the latest in a string of recent so-called “supply chain” attacks targeting…
Earlier this year, Donncha Ó Cearbhaill, a security researcher who investigates spyware attacks, found himself in an unusual position. For once, he became the target of hackers. “Dear User, this is Signal Security Support ChatBot.…
Electronics manufacturing giant Foxconn, which makes devices and components for Apple, Google, Nvidia, and Sony, among other tech giants, confirmed on Monday that it was hit by a cyberattack that may have affected some of…