All news on the topic: Hacking

Google users could endure disastrous consequences if they type an unusual search request into the site, experts say after research into computer and data hacking

In a bid to tackle rising cyber threats, Nigeria’s police force detains over 100 foreign nationals linked to sophisticated online scams.

Italian probe reveals “gigantic and alarming market of confidential data,” prosecutors say.

Hacktivists have released a list of individuals purportedly involved in election fraud.

Chinese hackers accessed the networks of U.S. broadband providers and obtained information from systems the federal government uses for court-authorized wiretapping, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.

Bahrain cannot claim state immunity to block a lawsuit brought in Britain by two dissidents who say its government hacked their laptops with spyware, London’s Court of Appeal ruled on Friday.

The decentralized data company is offering a reward for returning the stolen funds or for identifying the hacker in a way that leads to a conviction.

Nuclear site awaits sentencing over breaches that it admitted could have threatened national security

An Israeli private investigator wanted by the United States for allegedly carrying out a "hacking for hire" campaign appeared in a London court on Friday, ahead of his fight against extradition to the U.S. next year.

A university student who created malware targeting government websites while living with his parents has been jailed for 21 months.

Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is calling for a criminal investigation of Washington Post Publisher William Lewis’ involvement in allegedly deleting emails related to a phone hacking scandal while he worked as an executive for Rupert Murdoch’s media company.

The data watchdogs of the UK and Canada will investigate genetic testing company 23andMe over a data breach in October 2023.

LockBit, a major criminal gang who runs an online website that organises ransomware cyber attacks, has been involved in many high-profile hackings over the last few years

A DDoS attack against the Royal Family's website earlier this month was intentional and not a smokescreen as the pro-Russian hackers wanted to 'send a message', according to experts

A major Russian cyber crime gang is facing international sanctions from both the US and UK for their hacking activities, which included infiltrating a hospital system during the Covid-19 pandemic

Hackers targeted the database of a firm which handles the security for some of Britain's most secretive sites - including a nuclear submarine base and a chemical weapon lab

London City Airport's website went down shortly before 3pm on Tuesday afternoon amid a claim from pro-Russia hacking group UserSec that it had launched an attack on the travel hub

Diogo Santos Coelho, 23, faces up to 52 years in jail if found guilty amid claims he set up one of the world’s largest hacker forums after quitting school in London at 15

North Korea and hackers linked to the regime are said to have robbed $3billion over recent years in an attempt to help fund their ballistic missile programme

Zellis, a payroll company based in the UK, is understood to have been impacted by a cyber security attack targeting file transfer company MOVEit, with British Airways among the firms impacted

Joseph James O’Connor - known as PlugwalkJoe - pleaded guilty in New York to his role in the July 2020 hacking, in addition to cyberstalking and multiple other schemes