Positive emotions, such as empathy, curiosity, and a desire to help, are being manipulated as a common tactic in social engineering.

Hacking and cyber-espionage groups around the world are attempting to exploit recently disclosed zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server, before the window of opportunity closes as ...

Peter Williams sold eight exploits to a Russian zero-day broker by smuggling them from his employer’s highly secured ...

Decentralized finance protocol Balancer outlined the root cause of the recent $116 exploit and its ongoing response to the ...

Each year, the Zero Day Initiative hosts a "Pwn2Own" hacking contest where security researchers can earn money for finding serious vulnerabilities in major platforms like Windows and macOS. This 2021 ...

Over two months after Italian surveillance software maker Hacking Team had its internal data leaked by hackers, vendors are apparently still fixing zero-day exploits from the company’s arsenal. On ...

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An American cybersecurity company was behind a 2016 iPhone hack sold to a group of mercenaries and used by the United Arab Emirates. When the United Arab Emirates paid over $1.3 million for a powerful ...

More than four years after a mysterious group of hackers known as the Shadow Brokers began wantonly leaking secret NSA hacking tools onto the internet, the question that debacle raised—whether any ...