Rock Paper Shotgun

Tracking down the Dark Souls 2 hacker who injected me with 500 cursed Black Knight Ultra Greatswords

A dozen hours later in my Dark Souls 2 run, I defeated The Duke's Dear Freja, a giant spider boss possessed by a petrified ...
TechCrunch

Salt Typhoon is hacking the world’s phone and internet giants — here’s everywhere that’s been hit

Salt Typhoon is behind one of the broadest hacking campaigns in recent years, targeting some of the world’s largest phone and internet companies and stealing tens of millions of phone records about ...
CRN

AI Let ‘Unsophisticated’ Hacker Breach 600 Fortinet Firewalls, AWS Says, As AI Lowers ‘The Barrier’ For Threat Actors

“[AI] is making certain types of attacks more accessible to less sophisticated actors who can now leverage AI to enhance their capabilities and operate at greater scale,” said Amazon’s CSO Stephen ...
Dark Reading

600+ FortiGate Devices Hacked by AI-Armed Amateur

A financially motivated threat actor with little technical knowhow used generative AI (GenAI) to breach hundreds of FortiGate instances at scale. While this showcases how AI can scale workflows to ...
Los Angeles Times

AI Chatbots Weaponized in Massive Mexican Government Data Breach

Hackers recently used AI chatbots to breach Mexican government systems and steal data from 195 million people. The attackers manipulated AI models to generate exploit code and bypass safety guardrails ...
Forbes

WhatsApp And Signal Accounts Are Under Attack—What You Need To Know

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This ...
Business Insider

I was a preteen hacker. Now I protect companies from cybersecurity threats.

Every time Sarah E. Needleman publishes a story, you’ll get an alert straight to your inbox! Enter your email By clicking “Sign up”, you agree to receive emails ...
Hackaday

Take A Ride On Wrongbaud’s Hardware Hacking Highway

Regular Hackaday readers will no doubt be familiar with the work of Matthew Alt, AKA [wrongbaud]. His deep-dive blog posts break down hardware hacking and reverse engineering concepts in an engaging ...
PC Magazine

I Taught Myself to Use the Flipper Zero in an Hour, Then Hacked Everything in My Home

It looks like a cute little dolphin-themed toy, but the Flipper Zero is a surprisingly powerful learning tool for hacking. Here's how I mastered mine—and how you can, too. I’ve been writing about ...
ZDNet

Your smart home may be at risk - 6 ways experts protect your devices from attacks

I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen Best laptop cooling pads Best flip ...
Wall Street Journal

Cybercrime and Hacking

U.S. officials say more cyberattacks on the homeland should be expected after a global disruption forced tens of thousands of Stryker employees offline. New AI-powered tools are increasingly adept at ...