The Justice Department and FBI announced that they had seized two hacking tools connected to the Chinese government-linked group Flax Typhoon and a China-based company that the U.S. government has repeatedly taken action against, including with a new multi-agency advisory Thursday. The domain name seizures were meant to deny hackers…

China consistently opposes and lawfully cracks down on hacking activities, foreign ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said at a regular press conference in Beijing on Thursday. Mao’s remarks followed reports about alleged cyberattacks on South Korean financial institutions. “China opposes hacking activities and fights these activities in accordance with the law….

SEOUL – The suspect behind recent cyberattacks targeting South Korea’s financial sector may be a 26-year-old based in China’s Guangdong province, U.S. cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike has said. In a report published on its website on Wednesday, CrowdStrike said it uncovered personal details linked to the suspected attacker while analyzing AI…

Hackers obtained unauthorized HTTPS certificates for several Google domains and hijacked domains in the country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs) for Ghana, American Samoa, and Sierra Leone after compromising third-party operators and modifying authoritative DNS records. Google underlines that the attacks affected domains of other organizations in the .GH, .SL, and .AS…

Cardano wallet firm SecondFi finally launched a recovery portal for victims of the neo-finance platform’s $21 million hack, but will only pay roughly $8 for every unrecoverable NFT taken. SecondFi says victims looking to recover their assets will be assessed with an “incident snapshot” based on the June 2026 exploit…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has spoken out after the Palm Beach Republican Party was accused of endorsing the suspect in a child sex abuse investigation for local office. That suspect — Michael Caruso, 67 — was suspended from his position as the Palm Beach County clerk of…

For years, credit unions relied on a simple, effective security check: personal familiarity. When a member called to initiate a large wire transfer, a member service representative (MSR) could confirm their identity by the sound of their voice or historical context. In modern cybersecurity, unstructured trust is a critical vulnerability….

Peer pressure and popularity in school are nothing new, but the way cell phones are being used to generate so-called social currency in teens is raising new concerns. A new study finds that it is increasingly common for adolescents to use mobile porn and participate in “sexting” or sending sexual…

Japanese investigators have detained a suspected key member of an international hacking group accused of carrying out cyberattacks against companies around the world. Investigative sources say the suspect was handed over to German authorities earlier this month. The suspect is said to be a 28-year-old Russian national who is believed…

Personal information of about 100,000 people registered on an online education site managed by the Anti-Corruption & Civil Rights Commission was leaked. The leak followed a hacking incident at the corporations operating the site. On the 6th, according to the Anti-Corruption & Civil Rights Commission (ACRC) and others, personal information…