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Security researchers were able to gain “super administrative access” to Reviver, the sole provider of California’s digital license plates, and track the GPS location of all of vehicles they are associated with.

Federal prosecutors have charged two men with allegedly taking part in a spree of swatting attacks against over a dozen owners of compromised Amazon Ring home security cameras. The hackers made fake emergency calls, then used the compromised Amazon doorbells to taunt responding police.

A hacker group reportedly accessed the computer systems of Knox College and gained access to student data, threatening students with the release of their private information. This is a major shift in ransomware attacks, which typically are aimed at institutions, not individual Americans.

The Secret Service recently disclosed that hackers linked to the Chinese Communist Party stole at least $20 million in coronavirus relief benefits.

Protests in Iran grew larger and louder this week, despite regime efforts to dismiss the movement as a Western propaganda effort, or crush it with police and militia violence. Acts of defiance that were unthinkable a month ago have been reported across the country, while international support for the demonstrators grows stronger.

Hackers gained access to business publication Fast Company’s Apple News feed and sent obscene push notifications to iOS devices including iPhones and iPads. The publication suspended its Apple News feed and even shut down its homepage until it is “certain the situation has been resolved.”

Ridesharing giant Uber recently announced that its systems had been infiltrated by a hacker, now the company is claiming that the hacker is affiliated with the Lapsus$ hacking group that made headlines last year after hacking companies including Microsoft and Nvidia.

Ridesharing giant Uber says that is investigating a “cybersecurity incident” after a hacker claiming to be just 18 years old stated that they have administrator access to company tools.

Content subscription platform Patreon has reportedly laid off its security team sparking cybersecurity concerns among users, many of which threatened to leave the platform.

British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said on Wednesday that his government’s National Cyber Security Center has determined hackers linked to the Iranian regime were “almost certainly” behind a massive cyberattack against the Albanian government in July. Albania severed diplomatic ties with Iran over the incident, enraging Tehran.

Disneyland’s Facebook and Instagram accounts were recently hacked by a self-proclaimed “super hacker” who made racist posts and threatened to release another coronavirus. The posts were deleted by Disney within an hour.

The verified Twitter account for the British Army was taken over by hackers who used it to promote NFTs and announce a fictitious attack on the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. 

Ransomware attacks have become a growing issue in recent years, now a new report claims that hackers cost schools $3.56 billion in losses and downtime in just 2021.

A well-written phishing message sent via Facebook Messenger has reportedly scammed 10 million Facebook users and counting.

Security professionals critical of Microsoft claim that a lack of transparency and speed in response to reports of system vulnerabilities is putting customers at risk.

A new report has revealed that iPhones are vulnerable to malware attacks even when they’re turned off.

The government of Costa Rica declared a state of emergency this week after a massive ransomware attack locked down computer networks across multiple government agencies, paralyzing tax collection and leaving the private information of Costa Rican citizens vulnerable.

Boston-based security firm Cybereason released a report Wednesday which chronicled a “massive Chinese intellectual property theft operation” dubbed “Operation CuckooBees.” 

Google Chrome has announced a major update for its more than three billion users after detecting 30 security vulnerabilities on its browser.

Hackers developed software that could access computer systems used in energy facilities, officials said Wednesday, but did not specify a hacking organization.

A recent report reveals that both Apple and Facebook provided private user data to hackers who posed as law enforcement officials. The hackers used forged “emergency data requests” to trick the Masters of the Universe into handing over sensitive information such as IP addresses and phone numbers for their targets.

Cybersecurity researchers believe they may have found the hacker behind the recent “Lapsus$” cyberattacks on Microsoft and Nvidia — and their suspect is a 16-year old boy living in England.

A recent report claims that seven newly discovered vulnerabilities in an “Internet of Things” remote management tool put a wide variety of medical devices, ATMs, and other machines connected to the internet at risk of hacking.

Researchers have discovered that Amazon Echo smart speakers can be tricked into unlocking doors, making phone calls, and purchasing items via self-issued commands. In short, the devices hack themselves through an attack nicknamed “Alexa vs. Alexa.”

The Ukrainian government has reportedly called on the country’s underground culture of hackers to help protect its critical infrastructure and conduct cyberattacks and spying missions against Russian troops.

Hackers reportedly stole hundreds of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) from users of NFT marketplace OpenSea over the weekend, including NFTs from popular collections like Decentraland and Bored Ape Yacht Club.

Marion Isabeau-Ringuette, until last weekend director of communications for the office of Solicitor-General Sylvia Jones in Canada’s Ontario province, is one of several government staffers to lose their jobs after hackers exposed the list of Freedom Convoy donors from U.S. crowdfunding website GiveSendGo.

Twitter remains silent on the sharing of material from the hack of Christian crowdfunding website GiveSendGo across its platform, despite the far-left tech company’s strict rules against sharing hacked materials.

At least one Canadian businesswoman claimed on Tuesday to have received threats after appearing on a list of alleged donors to Freedom Convoy protestors hacked from the site GiveSendGo and shared with media.

A New York couple describing themselves as “serial entrepreneurs” have been arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering and to defraud the U.S. government in relation to a $4.5 billion Bitcoin heist in 2016.

Russian hackers appear to have found a new way to get their hands on inside information to profit on stock trades. Rather than hack the actual companies, they allegedly targeted two firms — with which thousands of public companies use to make electronic filings — for market-moving information, prosecutors say.

Popular cryptocurrency trading platform Crypto.com announced this week that it lost around $34 million worth of customers’ cryptocurrency in a recent hack.

The international hacker group called “Anonymous” hit the United Nations Networks for Migration website on Thursday, creating a post called “Thanks to Anonymous, Taiwan Returns to the U.N. Once More Before Christmas!” filled with pro-Taiwan links.

A security researcher appears to have discovered major security flaws in an internet gateway used by hundreds of hotels to manage their gues WiFi networks that could put the personal information of guests at risk.

The UK National Crime Agency and National Cyber Crime Unit have donated a database of 225 million stolen emails and passwords to HaveIBeenPwned (HIBP), allowing users to check if their details have been leaked.

Hackers enjoyed incredible windfalls by hacking cryptocurrency exchanges in 2021. Six of these cyberattacks netted crooks more than $100 million in each theft.  The largest cyberattack on a crypto platform occurred in December when hackers stole at least $200 million from Bitsmart.