May 4, 2023 08:10 am
SAN FRANCISCO, May 4: Meta on Wednesday warned that hackers are using the promise of generative artificial intelligence like ChatGPT to trick people into installing malicious code on devices.
August 12, 2021 12:04 pm
WASHINGTON, Aug 12: Hackers pulled off the biggest ever cryptocurrency heist on Tuesday, stealing $613 million in digital coins from token-swapping platform Poly Network, only to return $260 million worth of tokens less than 24 hours later, the company said. Here's what we know so far about the heist.
July 22, 2021 12:18 pm
KATHMANDU, July 22: Search for hackers threatening to hack the systems of 15 banks of Nepal in Viber has begun, according to the Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB), the country’s central bank.
October 13, 2018 11:30 am
NEW YORK, Oct 13: Could hackers have been able to see the last person you cyberstalked, or that party photo you were tagged in? According to Facebook, the unfortunate answer is “yes.”
February 7, 2018 16:19 pm
WASHINGTON, Feb 7: Russian cyberspies pursuing the secrets of military drones and other sensitive U.S. defense technology tricked key contract workers into exposing their email to theft, an Associated Press investigation has found.
December 22, 2017 20:28 pm
PARIS, Dec 22: Russian television anchor Pavel Lobkov was in the studio getting ready for his show when jarring news flashed across his phone: Some of his most intimate messages had just been published to the web.
December 22, 2017 13:20 pm
PARIS, Dec 22: The list of journalists provides new evidence for the U.S. intelligence community’s conclusion that Fancy Bear acted on behalf of the Russian government when it intervened in the U.S. presidential election. Spy agencies say the hackers were working to help Republican Donald Trump. The Russian government has denied interfering in the American election.
November 5, 2017 10:00 am
WASHINGTON, Nov 5: Four years ago, well before the furor over allegations Moscow meddled in the 2016 election that put Donald Trump in the White House, at least 195 web addresses belonging to Trump, his family or his business empire were hijacked by hackers possibly operating out of Russia, The Associated Press has learned.
October 24, 2017 06:46 am
KATHMANDU, Oct 24: Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) and NIC Asia Bank Ltd have stepped up efforts to prevent possible losses from a recent cyberattack against NIC Asia using the SWIFT electronic money transfer system.
August 27, 2017 09:56 am
WASHINGTON, August 27: Just a day before the last episode of ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 7 set to hit the screens, the HBO hackers calling themselves as ‘Mr Smith’ have leaked the climax of the ongoing season, thus ending the suspense that kept millions of fans on toes.
August 8, 2017 08:50 am
NEW YORK, August 8: Hackers using the name “Mr. Smith” posted a fresh cache of stolen HBO files online Monday, and demanded that HBO pay a ransom of several million dollars to prevent further such releases.
May 19, 2017 16:35 pm
Hackers are reportedly holding 'Pirates of the Caribbean - Dead Men Tell No Tales' hostage.
May 13, 2017 11:40 am
A global cyberattack leveraging hacking tools widely believed by researchers to have been developed by the U.S. National Security Agency hit international shipper FedEx, disrupted Britain's health system and infected computers in nearly 100 countries on Friday.
April 25, 2017 15:34 pm
PARIS, April 25: Researchers with the Japanese anti-virus firm Trend Micro say the campaign of French presidential front-runner Emmanuel Macron has been targeted by Russia-linked hackers, adding more details to previous suggestions that the centrist politician was being singled out for electronic eavesdropping by the Kremlin.