User data stolen from major cryptocurrency exchange. Hackers have managed to steal user data and money from Bithumb, one of the world’s biggest Bitcoin and Ethereum cryptocurrency exchanges, the company has announced. According to Bithumb, the company’s internal network and core servers were themselves not attacked. Instead it appears that the... Read more

Putin says patriotic Russians may be involved in hacking. Recent announcements have shed new light on the great American election hacking scandal. At the heart of the issue has been intentional collusion between key members of the Republican party and Russian operatives, allegedly working for Vladimir Putin. While that... Read more

A Dutch team discover a new hacking method but are the big tech companies listening? There’s chilling news coming from a Dutch team of security researchers who discovered a brand-new method of cyberattack. Typical hacking attempts require installing malicious code on a computer then trying to find where that... Read more

San Francisco-based Zimperium will acquire undisclosed code for vulnerabilities that have already been fixed. The company’s new N-Days Exploit Acquisition Program aims to pay security researchers from a $1.5 million pool for exploits targeting vulnerabilities in software that has already been patched. This is major a departure from most other similar... Read more

Ever since news broke that Russian operatives, perhaps even state sanctioned ones, allegedly hacked the Democratic National Party and leaked key emails, Russia has become the go-to whipping boy for hacking blame. A report from US officials that Russian hacking played a role in the outcome of the recent US... Read more

For consumers around the world, the process of paying for an item with a plastic card instead of currency is a common practice. But what isn’t so common–at least for around 90% of the non-US retailers–is the threat of stealing data and duplicating consumers’ stolen cards. Why? Because of... Read more