Cybersecurity

A South Korean man, Lee, was sentenced to four years in prison for leaking military secrets to North Korean hackers in exchange for 14 Bitcoins, worth around $480,000. This breach, involving the recruitment of a military officer to provide classified documents, raised serious national security concerns.

McAfee launched its Scam Detector at CES 2025, using AI to help users identify and stop scams in texts, emails, and videos. The tool includes a deepfake detector and will be available to McAfee customers in spring 2025 at no extra cost.

Britain is ramping up its cyber defences in response to the growing threat of AI-driven attacks from Russia, with a new AI security lab and £8.22 million investment. McFadden emphasised the urgency of protecting digital systems, as Russia’s cyberattacks continue to target Ukraine and its supporters.

Apple's new iOS 18 new security feature has backfired on law enforcer officers who has been locked out of an iPhone they were trying to crack for a forensic investigation.

Ambient Finance, the latest DeFi platform hit by front-end attacks, has regained control of its domain but awaits DNS updates. Users are urged to avoid the site until further notice. As cyberattacks surge, will these threats ever ease?

ESMA plans to propose mandatory external audits of crypto companies' cybersecurity following a $1.5 billion theft in early 2024, an 84% rise from 2023, to strengthen defenses and protect users.

For anyone who has been browsing the internet for a while, CAPTCHAs are a familiar hurdle. These image-based challenges—requiring users to identify objects like bicycles, traffic lights, or crosswalks—are designed to distinguish human users from automated bots. For years, these CAPTCHAs have served as gatekeepers to prevent malicious bots from accessing websites. However, new research suggests that this layer of protection may soon be obsolete, as advanced artificial intelligence (AI) systems are now able to crack these tests with ease.

For years, users everywhere have been grappling with password rules that seem more like riddles designed to keep us locked out of our own accounts. Fortunately, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is stepping in with some much-needed sanity.

The Telegram-based cryptocurrency trading bot Banana Gun has announced it will refund users who collectively lost $3 million in a recent hack carried out by 11 attackers.

French prosecutors are determined to take down the boss of Telegram, Pavel Durov, with its ultimate trump card