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Hackers have begun sending potential Uber users phishing emails, specifically tailored to trick them into divulging account passwords.

Firefox, the internet browser developed and maintained by Mozilla, will have the ability to warn internet users if a website they are viewing has been hacked in the past.

"We expect this technique to be rehashed, broadened, and repurposed for other cyberattacks," Trend Micro researchers said.

Uber reportedly said that it was still unable to confirm how many British customers' data may have been compromised.

Austrian police say cyber-thieves transferred bitcoins worth more than €100,000 (£89,000, $117,000) from a man's account while he was logged into a restaurant's public WiFi.

The Iranian hacker, Behzad Mesri, who went by the pseudonym "Skote Vashat" or "Mr Smith", reportedly has links to the Iranian military.

Different manufacturers will roll out updates to fix the issue on their own devices which means customers could receive patches at different times, depending on their system.

Tether said it is now attempting to get the stolen funds back and also ensure that the hacker cannot spend the money.

Uber reportedly paid hackers $100k to delete info and keep a hack of 57 million users' data. Of those, 600,000 drivers had their names and license details exposed

A hacker group was found targeting Saudi Arabia, UAE, India, Pakistan, US and others in a massive cyber-espionage campaign.

The Lazarus hacker group has designed a malware that poses as the legitimate app – The Bible – that translates the holy book into Korean.

Security experts believe that Pyongyang's hackers could likely be working out of India and other foreign nations to provide the "Kim regime plausible deniability".

From Amaq hacks to Anonymous and Russian troll farms - here are the biggest cybersecurity news stories of the week, as chosen by the IBTimes UK technology desk.

The Pentagon accidentally left exposed three "publicly downloadable" databases, one of which contained nearly 1.8 billion of social media data.

Amazon has pledged to release a security patch after a team of cybersecurity researchers showed its delivery service, which lets couriers inside homes, could be hacked.

New dark web markets that have recently cropped up appear to be run by inexperienced hackers, leaving the sites vulnerable.

"Interestingly, the malware is specifically instructed not to gather any data from vk.com, Russia's largest social media platform," Bitdefender noted.

The historic data breach occurred in October when over 46 million Malaysians' records were put up for sale on the dark web.

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation also exposed information regarding stock files and production services via unsecured cloud servers.

Cash Converters, a pawnbroker and loan firm, has launched an investigation after suffering a data breach impacting a UK customer database.

McAfee ClickProtect email protection service reportedly shared the malware, which was hosted on a third-party site.

Igor Barinov is co-founder and product manager of Oracles Network.

The security expert who found the OnePlus app reportedly believes that the smartphone maker may have intentionally left it on devices.

OnePlus said it does not see the factory-installed diagnostic tool as "a major security issue", but will remove it in an upcoming OTA.

The hijacked radio station is allegedly used by the Kim Jong-un regime to transmit secret codes days before Pyongyang conducts a weapons test.

The new alerts come amid rising tensions between the US and North Korea over Pyongyang's rapid advancement of its nuclear programme and defiant missile tests.

Forever 21 operates more than 815 stores in 57 countries including the US, UK, Australia,Canada and India.

Customers' names, email addresses, passwords, billing addresses, phone numbers, payment details and more may have been stolen by hackers.

Anti-virus pioneer John McAfee has signed a partnership with Hacken, an Eastern European cybersecurity start-up built upon a new form of cryptocurrency, IBTimes UK can reveal.

Millions of Kodi streamers who use jailbroken Apple TV 2 devices to watch content are at risk of hacking attacks due to a "huge security flaw."