In the wake of four young people being arrested over suspected involvement in the recent Marks & Spencer, Co-op and Harrods ransomware attacks, it is easy to rush to censure those responsible for the ...

In the computer security context, a hacker is someone who seeks and exploits weaknesses in a computer system or computer network. Hackers may be motivated by a multitude of reasons, such as profit, ...

Below, Joe Tidy shares five key insights from his new book, Ctrl + Alt + Chaos: How Teenage Hackers Hijack the Internet. Tidy is the BBC’s first cyber correspondent and a leading voice on cybercrime.

The Ukrainian police arrested a 35-year-old hacker who breached 5,000 accounts at an international hosting company and used them to mine cryptocurrency, resulting in $4.5 million in damages. "The ...

Tech expert ThioJoe teaches an easy method to spot a hacker on your PC. ABC suspends Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show indefinitely over his remarks about Charlie Kirk’s death Robert Redford and Paul ...

The Amsterdam Court of Appeal sentenced a 44-year-old Dutch national to seven years in prison for multiple crimes, including computer hacking and attempted extortion. The man was arrested in 2021 and ...

Allison Nixon had helped arrest dozens of members of the Com, a loose affiliation of online groups responsible for violence and hacking campaigns. Then she became a target. The threats started in ...

Two hackers claimed to have found evidence that North Korean hackers targeted South Korean government networks and companies by breaching a computer used by a member of Pyongyang's Kimsuky ...

A hacker exploited Anthropic PBC’s artificial intelligence chatbot to carry out a series of attacks against Mexican government agencies, resulting in the theft of a huge trove of sensitive tax and ...