The information security world has three well-known types of hackers: black hats, white hats and gray hats. These colored-hat descriptions were born as hackers tried to differentiate themselves and ...

A black hat hacker historically has been used to describe one who has malicious intent -- such as theft of information, fraud or disrupting systems -- but increasingly, more specific terms are being ...

A Maryland man was found guilty of stealing more than $53 million after hacking the decentralized crypto exchange Uranium ...

Iranian hackers were responsible for a disruptive computer breach in March that forced Los Angeles’ transit system to shut down parts of its network, Israeli researchers say. The saboteurs stole at ...

On the first day of the Pwn2Own Ireland 2026 competition, security researchers hacked the Samsung Galaxy S26 twice and earned ...

For nearly two years, researcher Vangelis Stykas has maintained access to North Korean hackers’ servers. His work shows they pulled off intrusions in a shocking number of systems across the globe.

SAN FRANCISCO — Cybersecurity researchers who broke into ChatGPT maker OpenAI earlier this summer say the artificial intelligence industry is unprepared for the security risks created by the growing ...

GitHub, the popular developer platform owned by Microsoft, confirmed it was hacked and attackers had stolen data from around 3,800 internal code repositories. The code hosting and sharing giant said ...

U.S. and allied agencies warned that hackers enabled by a Chinese regime contractor targeted organizations worldwide to steal sensitive information.

The hackers alerted the fashion giant's customers through a push notification that said they had "fully compromised" the ...

Hackers can steal your browser cookies to impersonate you. A security feature in Chrome aims to prevent such attacks. The feature ties your cookies to your device's own security chip. Browser cookies ...