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Definitionhacker

A hacker is an individual who uses computer, networking or other skills to overcome a technical problem.Read More

Chinese hackers responsible for two ‘malicious’ cyber campaigns against UK

By Bill Goodwin 25 Mar 2024

Government sanctions two Chinese nationals and a Chinese company identified as responsible for cyber campaigns against government officials and members of parliament Read More

Microsoft: Nation-state hackers are exploiting ChatGPT

By Alex Scroxton 14 Feb 2024

Threat actors from China, Iran, North Korea and Russia have all been probing use cases for generative AI service ChatGPT, but have yet to use such tools in a full-blown cyber attack Read More

SolarWinds hackers attack Microsoft in apparent recon mission

By Alex Scroxton 22 Jan 2024

Russian-backed threat actor behind infamous 2020 SolarWinds Sunburst intrusion hacked into Microsoft’s systems, apparently in an attempt to get hold of intel on themselves Read More

Microsoft, OpenAI warn nation-state hackers are abusing LLMs

By Arielle Waldman 14 Feb 2024

Microsoft and OpenAI observed five nation-state threat groups leveraging generative AI and large language models for social engineering, vulnerability research and other tasks. Read More

Fancy Bear hackers still exploiting Microsoft Exchange flaw

By Arielle Waldman 04 Dec 2023

Microsoft and Polish Cyber Command warned enterprises that Russian nation-state hackers are exploiting CVE-2023-23397 to gain privileged access to Exchange email accounts. Read More

Salesforce and Zoom embrace ethical hackers. You should, too

By Alex Scroxton 11 Sep 2023

Software companies Salesforce and Zoom discuss their successful bug bounty programmes, what they learned at a recent in-person hackathon in which they participated, and why others shouldn’t be scared of hackers Read More

Cisco hackers likely taking steps to avoid identification

By Alex Scroxton 24 Oct 2023

Cisco confirms that a drop in detections of devices compromised by two zero-days was likely the result of reactive measures taken by the threat actors to avoid discovery Read More

North Korean hackers exploit critical TeamCity vulnerability

By Arielle Waldman 19 Oct 2023

While a patch is available, Microsoft and JetBrains confirmed TeamCity users have been compromised in attacks that leverage CVE-2023-42793 as an initial attack vector. Read More

Red Cross issues rules of engagement for hackers in conflicts

By Sebastian Klovig Skelton 05 Oct 2023

The digital rules of engagement are the first time cyber activity has been looked at by the conflict watchdog, but a number of hacker groups have already come out and said they will not be following them Read More

How Storm-0558 hackers stole an MSA key from Microsoft

By Arielle Waldman 07 Sep 2023

Microsoft detailed a series of errors that led to a consumer account signing key accidentally being included in a crash dump that was later accessed by Storm-0558 actors. Read More