A veteran cybersecurity executive who prosecutors say “betrayed” the United States will spend at least another seven years behind bars after pleading guilty to stealing and selling hacking and surveillance tools to a Russian firm. Peter Williams, the former chief executive of US defense contractor L3Harris, was sentenced to 87 months in prison on Tuesday … Read more
The spillover from a ransomware attack on one of the largest government contractors in the United States continues to grow: more than 25 million people have now had their personal information stolen in the hack. Conduent provides printing, filing services, and document and payment processing services for state government assistance such as food assistance, as … Read more
In February 2021, software giant Ivanti discovered that Chinese hackers had penetrated the network of Pulse Secure, one of its subsidiaries that provided VPN devices to dozens of companies and government agencies around the world, according to new reports from Bloomberg. Hackers exploited a secret backdoor they placed in Pulse Secure’s VPN software, Bloomberg reported, … Read more
A U.S. federal court has sentenced a Ukrainian man to five years in prison for his role in a long-running identity theft operation that helped North Korean overseas workers obtain fraudulent jobs at dozens of U.S. companies. U.S. prosecutors filed charges in 2024 against Oleksandr Didenko, 29, a resident of Kyiv, for setting up North … Read more
In 2010, famed security researcher Barnaby Jack spectacularly hacked into an ATM on stage at the Black Hat security conference, forcing it to spit out wads of cash in front of an astonished audience. More than a decade later, ATM jackpotting—as it’s called—has broken out of the realm of theoretical security research into big business … Read more
Last year, phone-hacking tool maker Cellebrite announced it had suspended Serbian police as a customer after human rights researchers alleged local police and intelligence agencies used its tools to hack into the phones of journalists and activists and spread spyware. This was a rare instance of Cellebrite publicly cutting off a customer after documented allegations … Read more
Def Con, one of the world’s largest and longest-running hacker conferences, announced Wednesday that three people associated with Jeffrey Epstein are no longer allowed to attend. The conference justified adding Pablos Holman, Vincenzo Iozzo and Joichi Ito to its public blacklist, saying the three appeared in the latest release of Justice Department documents related to … Read more
A government customer of sanctioned spyware maker Intellex has hacked the phone of a prominent journalist in Angola, in what Amnesty International says is the latest case of targeting someone in civil society using powerful phone-hacking software. A human rights organization published a new report on Tuesday analyzing several attempted hacking attacks against local journalist … Read more
The 2026 AI Security & Cybersecurity Expert Bundle provides 88 hours of training that covers AI, ethical hacking, and real-world defensive skills. This six-course package doesn’t assume you’re already an experienced security engineer (or talk to those who are). Instead, it builds practical, real-world skills that matter whether you’re breaking into a field or improving … Read more
Figure Technology, a blockchain-based lending company, has confirmed that there has been a data breach. On Friday, Figure spokeswoman Alethea Jadick told TechCrunch in a statement that the breach occurred when an employee was tricked into using a social engineering attack that allowed hackers to steal a “limited number of files.” The statement said the … Read more