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Crypto-hackers are holding the Costa Rican healthcare system to ransom for $5B in bitcoin
By Katie Wickens published
news 'To decrypt your systems you have to pay $5,000,000 in bitcoin,' the group is reported to have as its demands.
'Fixed' Chrome extension flaw could allow hackers to record both your webcam and desktop feeds
By Katie Wickens published
news A Screencastify vulnerability that allows monitoring by malicious actors was apparently fixed, but experts says it still has security flaws.
'Security researchers' aka hackers make $800k in prize money for exploiting Windows 11 and Teams
By Jorge Jimenez published
News Day 1 of the Pwn2own hacking event is already proving very lucrative for its participants.
Hackers build like-for-like open-source app to try and steal crypto
By Hope Corrigan published
news Just enter that incredibly important key phrase here, thank you.
This music for 'maximum hacking' is actually pretty chill
By Jorge Jimenez published
News Hack the world to some nice background music from the "Crypto Music for Coding, Programming, Studying" channel.
Seven UK teens have been arrested over Lapsus$ hacks on major tech companies
By Katie Wickens published
news City of London Police confirm they have arrested seven teenagers in relation to the gang.
This is the second time a third-party patcher has stepped in to fix the same Windows security issue
By Katie Wickens published
news Windows local privilege escalation zero-day vulnerability, has a new unofficial fix, again.
Ubisoft says 'cyber security incident' last week shows no evidence of data breach
By Andy Chalk published
news Ubisoft's IT team is working with external experts to investigate the incident, which took place last week.
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