News Articles on hackers

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 07 01:10 PM

Amazon's popular live video streaming platform Twitch said Wednesday hackers had broken into its network after reports of exposed confidential company data surfaced online. Read more »

Iran official apologizes for Evin prison abuse

Reuters
Posted at Aug 24 04:20 PM

The head of Iran's prisons apologized after videos leaked by hackers showed beatings of prisoners, a rare admission of abuse by authorities. Read more »

Court orders Binance to trace cryptocurrency hackers

Reuters
Posted at Aug 13 10:05 PM

London's High Court has ordered Binance, one of the world's largest crytocurrency exchanges, to identify hackers and freeze their accounts. Read more »

Firms urged to get 3rd-party checkers to reinforce cybersecurity

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 16 06:34 PM

Philippines firms need third-party players to check vulnerabilities in terms of their online security defenses, cybersecurity testing platform Secuna told ANC. Read more »

Facebook says Iran-based hackers used site to target US military personnel

Elizabeth Culliford, Reuters
Posted at Jul 16 02:20 AM

Facebook said on Thursday it had taken down about 200 accounts run by a group of hackers in Iran as part of a cyber-spying operation that targeted mostly US military personnel and people working at defense and aerospace companies. Read more »

Massive ransomware attack potentially hit 1,000 businesses

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Jul 04 09:54 AM

SAN FRANCISCO, United States - A ransomware attack on a US IT company potentially targeted 1,000 businesses, researchers said Saturday, with one of Sweden's biggest supermarket chains revealing it had to temporarily close around 800 stores after losing access to its checkouts. Read more »

Bitcoin sinks and approaches $30,000

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 09 07:34 AM

The price of bitcoin fell sharply on Tuesday, approaching a symbolic $30,000 threshold it has not crossed since January and dragging other cryptocurrencies in its wake. Read more »

Air India says data on 4.5 million passengers stolen

Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 22 12:27 PM

Hackers have stolen data on about 4.5 million Air India passengers around the world in the latest breach reported by a major airline. Read more »

Ransom-seeking hackers are taking advantage of Microsoft flaw -expert

Raphael Satter, Reuters
Posted at Mar 12 02:43 PM

Ransom-seeking hackers have begun taking advantage of a recently disclosed flaw in Microsoft's widely used mail server software, a researcher said late Wednesday - a serious escalation that could portend widespread digital disruption. Read more »

NBI confirms cyber attack on national government portal

Jamaine Punzalan, ABS CBN News
Updated as of Mar 11 02:44 PM

The National Bureau of Investigation on Thursday confirmed a cyber attack on a government website, but did not confirm whether or not the incident was a protest against the recent slay of 9 activists. Read more »

Microsoft says Chinese hackers targeted groups via server software

Raphael Satter and Christopher Bing, Reuters
Updated as of Mar 03 06:47 AM

A China-linked cyberespionage group has been remotely plundering email inboxes using freshly discovered flaws in Microsoft mail server software, the company and outside researchers said on Tuesday - an example of how commonly used programs can be exploited to cast a wide net online. Read more »

US right-wing platform Gab attacked by 'demon hackers' - CEO

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 02 08:29 AM

WASHINGTON - The CEO of Gab, a social network favored by the US political right, said the platform had been attacked by "demon hackers" after an activist group released user data described as an important resource for research on the far right. The activist group called DDoSecrets Collective released the data over the weekend to Wired magazine, claiming it offered "a record of the culture" related to the violent siege of the US Capitol on January 6. Read more »

Hackers try to contaminate Florida town's water supply through computer breach

Christopher Bing, Reuters
Posted at Feb 09 07:28 AM

Hackers broke into the computer system of a facility that treats water for about 15,000 people near Tampa, Florida and sought to add a dangerous level of additive to the water supply, the Pinellas County Sheriff said on Monday. Read more »

NATO checking systems after US cyberattack

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 19 09:51 PM

Microsoft said Thursday its anti-virus software detected intrusions in dozens of networked systems, most of them in the United States. Read more »

Hackers' broad attack sets cyber experts worldwide scrambling to defend networks

Jack Stubbs, Reuters
Posted at Dec 19 02:14 PM

Suspected Russian hackers who broke into US government agencies also spied on less high-profile organizations, including groups in Britain, a US internet provider and a county government in Arizona, according to web records and a security source. Read more »

Suspected Russian hackers spied on U.S. Treasury emails - sources

Christopher Bing, Reuters
Posted at Dec 14 06:59 AM

WASHINGTON - Hackers believed to be working for Russia have been monitoring internal email traffic at the U.S. Treasury Department and an agency that decides internet and telecommunications policy, according to people familiar with the matter. Read more »

Ransomware surge imperils hospitals as pandemic intensifies

Rob Lever, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 01 01:58 PM

Hackers are stepping up attacks on health care systems with ransomware in the United States and other countries, creating new risks for medical care as the global coronavirus pandemic accelerates. Read more »

Russian hackers targeted California, Indiana Democratic parties

Raphael Satter, Christopher Bing and Joel Schectman, Reuters
Posted at Oct 31 12:10 AM

The group of Russian hackers accused of meddling in the 2016 US presidential election earlier this year targeted the email accounts of Democratic state parties in California and Indiana, and influential think tanks in Washington and New York, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Read more »

'We are being hacked': PNP seeks P300M budget to counter cybercrime

Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Oct 01 10:13 PM

The Philippine National Police (PNP) on Thursday said it needs about P300 million to boost its anti-cybercrime division as incidents of online fraud increased during the global pandemic, when a lot of people work, study and transact online to avoid contracting COVID-19 outdoors. Read more »

Chinese hackers 'stole data from Spanish vaccine labs': report

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 19 05:50 AM

MADRID - Chinese hackers have stolen information from Spanish laboratories working on a vaccine for Covid-19, El Pais newspaper reported Friday. Read more »

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