HACKING

Data breaches are never good news, and the recent high-profile attacks revealed serious security gaps in the respective organizations.

ZachXBT created a Twitter thread in which he accused Cameron Redman, also known as Cam, of hacking multiple NFT Twitter accounts.

Cyber actors now pose a significant threat to the global financial system, financial stability and confidence in the integrity of the system.

The malware is "highly focused on customers from a specific country (Hungary) and is distributing ExobotCompact.D under the guise of Play Store update through malicious websites," ThreadFabric reported.

The supposed (Rosaviatsia) hack wiped clean all files, documents, emails and registration data from the servers.

Anonymous continues to hit Russia with relentless cyber attacks.

"I think that in this cyberwar we need more than information leaks, defacement–the message is clear for many Russian citizens," an Anonymous member told International Business Times.

The latest is a printer hack, which allows the collective to send a message across the transcontinental country.

While it would be a while before the data would become available to the public, Anonymous assured its followers on Twitter that it would be "worth the wait."

The decentralized international activist and hacktivist collective and movement also revealed its plan to use cameras in Russia for "recon."

Anonymous has breached the database of the agency responsible for controlling Russian media and released more than 360,000 files to the public.

Russia successfully tested a country-wide alternative to the global internet in December 2019.

The FBI is warning attendees and businesses at the Beijing Winter Olympics to be wary of the cybersecurity risks that they should be protecting against three days before the games begin.

Hackers have struck the International Committee of the Red Cross and stole data on 515,000 people it was aiding and temporarily shut down a program used to reunite families separated by conflicts worldwide.

The "large-scale" security breach was first reported by a security firm.

On Tuesday, Twitch found its systems compromised by a computer hacker, who made off with gigabytes of company data and leaked them on the open web. The hacker claiming responsibility is hinting that this is only the beginning. 

Former Deputy National Security Adviser says that the Chinese government is exploiting the digital network worldwide to compile dossiers on foreign citizens and use them to "influence and intimidate, reward and blackmail, flatter and humiliate, divide and conquer."

Dark patterns can be found in many kinds of sites and are used by several kinds of organizations.

Russian-linked hackers suspected to be linked to biggest ransomware attack on record, requesting $70 million in cryptocurrency from victims all around the world.

Robinhood has been widely popular with millennials seeking to trade while stuck at home.

The Department of Justice on Wednesday charged five Chinese nationals involved in a global hacking campaign targeting software development companies, telecommunications firms and nonprofits, among others.