We’re seeing reports across social media that users of Elon Musk’s X are getting stuck in endless loops and, in some cases, getting locked out of their X account, following a mandatory two-factor security change…
Australia’s intelligence head Mike Burgess has warned that China-backed hackers are “probing” the country’s critical infrastructure, and in some cases have gained access. Burgess, who heads the country’s main intelligence agency, the Australian Security Intelligence…
For more than a decade, makers of government spyware have defended themselves from criticism by saying that their surveillance technology is intended to be used only against serious criminals and terrorists, and only in limited…
The Washington Post has said that it was one of the victims of a hacking campaign tied to Oracle’s suite of corporate software apps. Reuters first reported the news on Friday, citing a statement from…
The U.S. Congressional Budget Office has confirmed it was hacked. Caitlin Emma, a spokesperson for CBO, told TechCrunch on Friday that the agency is investigating the breach and “has identified the security incident, has taken…
Security researchers have discovered an Android spyware that targeted Samsung Galaxy phones during a nearly year-long hacking campaign. Researchers at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 said the spyware, which they call “Landfall,” was first detected…
Francesco Nicodemo, a consultant who works with left-wing politicians in Italy, has gone public as the latest person targeted with Paragon spyware in the country. On Thursday, Nicodemo said in a Facebook post that for…
Journalists in Europe found it was “easy” to spy on top European Union officials using commercially obtained location histories sold by data brokers, despite the continent having some of the strongest data protection laws in…
Peter Williams, the former general manager of Trenchant, a division of defense contractor L3Harris that develops surveillance and hacking tools for Western governments, pleaded guilty last week to stealing some of those tools and selling…
U.S. prosecutors have charged two rogue employees of a cybersecurity company that specializes in negotiating ransom payments to hackers on behalf of their victims, with carrying out ransomware attacks of their own. Last month, the…