A hacker has pulled off one of the most alarming AI-powered cyberattacks ever documented. According to Anthropic, the company behind Claude, a hacker used its artificial intelligence chatbot to ...

Ethical hacking might sound like a contradiction in terms, but it’s actually an important tool when it comes to an organization's cyber security. An ethical hacker, also known as a white hat hacker, ...

A hacker has compromised a little-known, but popular 2.4MB software package that's downloaded over 100 million times per week and is widely used across apps. The IT security community is sounding the ...

US authorities say a US company that provided surveillance and data-mining software to the Pentagon and other government agencies was in fact owned by a Russian company that also sold software to ...

If you downloaded the free PC-monitoring tools CPU-Z or HWMonitor yesterday, you may have actually installed malware after a hacker briefly hijacked the downloads to deliver a Trojan. On Thursday, ...

When you think of cyberattacks that compromise your account security, maybe you envisage Microsoft zero-day vulnerabilities being exploited in your software, or perhaps a hacker using ...

Axios, a tool widely used to develop software applications, was compromised overnight, introducing a vulnerability in a key part of the internet’s plumbing. An unknown hacker was able to breach one of ...

A hacker has managed to infect over a dozen widely used software packages with a crypto-looting malware after successfully phishing the programmer responsible for maintaining them. This morning, the ...

Suspected North Korean hackers have bugged a software package that has been used by thousands of US companies in a major supply-chain attack that could take months to recover from, security experts ...

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Security researchers have identified a suite of powerful hacking tools capable of compromising iPhones running older software that they say has passed from a government customer into the hands of ...

A hacker is an individual who uses computer, networking or other skills to overcome a technical problem. The term also refers to anyone who uses such abilities to gain unauthorized access to systems ...