Attorney General Todd Blanche said that "sophisticated cyber criminals" targeted hundreds of thousands of X users' accounts in a password-recovery attack.
The group offered tools that allowed malicious actors to engage in computer intrusion activities while concealing the hackers' country of origin, the DOJ said.
The Islamist Iranian regime reportedly hacked into a British power plant and shut it down for multiple days in a deeply concerning first of its kind attack that should theoretically be impossible. Reported by: Cherry [...]
City leaders announced Saturday that malicious software had compromised Suisun City's computer systems Friday.
Hackers have stolen over 600,000 records containing personal data from the United Kingdom's Department for Education.
A significant data breach at the United Kingdom’s Department for Education has leaked sensitive information belonging to government officials and educational staff. PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: Hackers have stolen over 600,000 records containing personal data from the United Kingdom’s Department for Education. DETAIL: On Wednesday, it was revealed that Britain’s Department for Education (DfE) had been hacked. The breach targeted the DfE’s help desk and the Turing Scheme database, which tracks British students studying abroad. The breach resulted in the leak of over 607,000 records of government officials, university staff , and head teachers. The records contained sensitive data such as the full names, job titles, email…Open
Researchers at the University of Toronto showed how hackers could use artificial intelligence to create a program that could target any known flaw in the world’s computers.
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Instructure, which provides Canvas software to thousands of schools and universities around the world, did not say what it had given the hackers in exchange for the stolen data.
The company said that it had identified, for the first time, hackers using artificial intelligence to discover an unknown bug. The attempted attack represents “a taste of what’s to come,” one expert said.