CYBERSECURITY

"We take the security of personally identifiable information very seriously," California's Department of Fish and Wildlife said.

For their roles in what US prosecutors have called "one of the largest" known cybercrime schemes, two Russian nationals were handed lengthy prison terms this week.

GPU manufacturers are scrambling to deal with rapidly rising demand for graphics cards.

The new variant of AndroRAT disguises itself as an app called TrashCleaner, which once installed, can allow hackers to perform various malicious activities.

Foreign office minister for cybersecurity Lord Ahmad has criticised Russian military for the NotPetya attack that crippled Ukraine and 64 countries.

"Salon never has access to your personal files or information during this process," the media site notes.

Widely believed to be linked to the North Korean regime, Lazarus Group has been linked to the 2014 Sony hack and the WannaCry ransomware attack in 2017 among others.

The hacker group created customised chat apps with backdoor functionalities for both Android and Windows.

The vulnerability allowed hackers to install a backdoor that allowed them to gain remote control of victims' systems.

Recruiting and radicalising supporter online could soon become a thing of the past for the Islamic militant group

Over the past few months, security experts have observed a steady rise in cryptojacking attacks, malware-based miners and browser-based cryptominers.

Over the past few months, researchers observed an uptick in phishing campaigns targeting several Olympics organisations by the Kremlin-linked hacking group Fancy Bear.

A recent campaign by Katie Price has helped make way for a review of online laws as the Government addresses the impact of cyberbullying.

The incident comes as cybercriminals increasingly look to tap into the growing digital currency market with cryptojacking attacks, malware and more

"Best international practice says that you don't talk about an attack," IOC spokesman Mark Adams said.

The nuclear facility houses a 1-petraflop supercomputer that is capable of performing around 1,000 trillion calculations per second.

"DNS is still often treated differently providing a golden opportunity to leak data," Forcepoint researchers said.

The three-year-old code was initially stolen by a former Apple intern who shared it with a group of five friends in the iOS jailbreaking community.

A separate database that contained personal details of 53,000 current and former Sacramento Bee subscribers was also compromised.

A group of North Korean hackers were sent to China and required to make up to $100,000 a year for the reclusive regime by any means, or face "severe" consequences.

Sources said that the Coincheck hackers are using the anonymity provided by the dark web to help launder the stolen cryptocurrency, which is known as NEM.

"For national security reasons, we cannot allow a foreign adversary to embed their technology in US government systems or critical infrastructure," Senator Marco Rubio said.

The case has been dubbed "one of the largest cyber fraud enterprise prosecutions ever undertaken" by the Justice Department.

"I clicked on it and instantly knew that I had been had," one retired Air Force major general, who was sent a dubious phishing link, said.

The company said there is currently no indication to suggest this data was downloaded or accessed by any Mixpanel employee or third party.

Four men entered Oxford home, threatened occupants with firearm and forced victim to transfer bitcoin.

A cheap and easy-to-deploy hacking tool used by cybercriminals to covertly hijack computers has been dismantled in an international policing operation.

For anyone typing quickly or letting browser autocomplete lead them to the "right" website, they may be just one letter away from being led to the dubious phishing website.

"Those infected devices are actively trying to spread malicious code," researchers said.