A group of hackers said it attacked a Texas city government website due to the state’s recently-enacted law on transgender procedures and said it is planning more attacks. The group, SiegedSec, took to Telegram on June 23 around 4:00 p.m. to post what it says are about roughly 500 thousand files leaked from the Texas Fort Worth…

They are hooded cyber criminals in dark basements trying to crack your bank account PIN. They are insidious Russians stealing elections from offshore IP addresses. These are typically what we associate with hackers, but Ryan Montgomery, also dubbed 0day, is different. He is what’s called a white hat hacker, or ethical hacker. The 29-year-old cyber…

Russian hackers who were sanctioned for targeting hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic couldn’t be prosecuted because the National Crime Agency (NCA) lacks the legal power, the head of the agency said. NCA Director General Graeme Biggar told a joint committee of parliamentarians that the agency would “very much like” its extraterritorial jurisdiction expanded so it can…

The U.S. government has been hit in a global hacking campaign that exploited a vulnerability in widely used software but does not expect it to have significant impact, the nation’s cyber watchdog agency said on June 15. The Justice Department announced that a grand jury indicted Jack Teixeira, the Massachusetts Air National Guard member suspected…

The U.S. government has been hit in a global hacking campaign that exploited a vulnerability in widely used software but does not expect it to have significant impact, the nation’s cyber watchdog agency said on June 15. The Justice Department announced that a grand jury indicted Jack Teixeira, the Massachusetts Air National Guard member suspected…

Suspected state-backed Chinese hackers used a security hole in a popular email security appliance to break into the networks of hundreds of public and private sector organizations globally, nearly a third of them government agencies, including foreign ministries, cybersecurity firm Mandiant said Thursday. “This is the broadest cyber espionage campaign known to be conducted by…

An Australian governmental body in charge of monitoring privacy breaches has fallen victim to a cyber attack following the hacking of one of the agency’s law firms. Data from the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) was stolen by Russian cybercriminal BlackCat, also known as AlphV, after the hacking group infiltrated the database of…

The Moms for Liberty website was shut down multiple times by unknown hackers. On May 24, the website for the national parents’ rights group, Moms for Liberty, came under attack by “Anonymous” hackers and was completely shut down several. While speaking with The Epoch Times, the co-founder of the organization said the website had just…

Conservative commentator and filmmaker Matt Walsh said his team is still working to find out exactly who hacked his Twitter account, noting that an “insider” might have given the hacker access to his phone. “As soon as the hacking attack started, I was on the phone with our tech team, security team, lawyers and executives,”…

The FBI is warning people not to use public phone charging stations as hackers have been taking advantage of the situation to infect connected devices with malware. “Avoid using free charging stations in airports, hotels or shopping centers,” said FBI Denver in an April 6 Twitter post. “Bad actors have figured out ways to use…