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State-sponsored Volt Typhoon hackers were poking around the Littleton Electric Light and Water Departments for at least 300 days before the FBI gave the utility a heads up.

"The backdoors had varying custom capabilities, including active and passive backdoor functions, as well as an embedded script that disables logging mechanisms on the target device," Google-owned ...

Using the hashtag #takedowntwitter (the site’s former name before Musk bought the platform in October 2022), a Bluesky user who goes by the name ‘Puck Arks’ posted that a pro-Palestinian hacker group ...

Here, Sky News looks at what we know about the hackers claiming responsibility for the attack. The hacking group was founded in 2023 and has orchestrated cyber attacks against governments and ...

What are the best hacking games on PC? Game developers have long valued the ‘hacker ethic’ – the will and skill to grab a game by the scruff of its code, rip it apart, and put the pieces ...

The hack and slash genre has been around for many years, and for good reason. Whilst there is a joy in seeing through a well-written story, or whizzing round lifelike racetracks, sometimes it’s ...

Many others also joked about how they plan to use the helpful hack for their partners, adult children and teenagers. While some people were charmed by the video, others were more critical.

The FBI confirmed the heist, saying North Korea was responsible. It warned that the hackers are “proceeding rapidly and have converted some of the stolen assets to Bitcoin and other virtual ...

Hackers thought to be working for the North Korean regime have successfully converted at least $300m (£232m) of their record-breaking $1.5bn crypto heist to unrecoverable funds. The criminals ...

Proving you're not a robot online can be really annoying, but now it can also be quite dangerous as hackers have devised a new way to use seemingly harmless CAPTCHAs in their attacks. A Completely ...

A series of recent reports have highlighted web and IP cameras as key enablers of devastating cyberattacks, acting as springboards for hackers to deploy malware. A ransomware gang gained initial ...