Spyware attacks on journalists, human rights defenders and political dissidents are now common. In early 2025, WhatsApp notified approximately 90 users – many of them journalists and civil society members from across Europe – that they had been targeted by Israeli spyware company Paragon Solutions. Months later, Apple sent threat notifications to a new group…
Cellphone providers and smartphone makers bearing President Trump’s name are leaking Trump Mobile customer data, including mailing addresses and email addresses, according to reports. On Tuesday, YouTubers Coffeezilla and Penguinz0 both said they ordered gold-coloured T1 phones from Trump Mobile after being alerted by a researcher who found the exposed data online. “I know the…
Regular Internet users and corporations are not the only victims of malicious hackers. Sometimes hackers hack each other. That’s what happened in an unusual hacking campaign, where an unknown group of hackers targeted systems already compromised by a prolific cybercrime group called TeamPCP. Once the hackers got into those systems, they immediately kicked out the…
A serious security vulnerability affecting nearly every version of the Linux operating system has left defenders on alert and scrambling to patch after security researchers publicly released exploit code that allows attackers to take complete control of vulnerable systems. The US government says the bug, called “CopyFail,” now exists. Malicious hackers are exploiting the forest,…
