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China lured graduate jobseekers into digital espionage

Enlarge (credit: FT montage | Getty Images | Dreamstime) Chinese university students have been lured to work at a secretive technology company that masked the true nature of their jobs: researching Western targets…

YouTube content creator credentials are under siege by YTStealer malware

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) In online crime forums, specialization is everything. Enter YTStealer, a new piece of malware that steals authentication credentials belonging to YouTube content creators. “What sets YTStealer aside from other…

A wide range of routers are under attack by new, unusually sophisticated malware

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) An unusually advanced hacking group has spent almost two years infecting a wide range of routers in North America and Europe with malware that takes full control of connected…

Basic home office hacks: 8 things you need to elevate your workspace

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) Home offices have gotten a lot of attention over the last couple of years. When offices all over the world shut down at the beginning of…

Pro-Russia threat group Killnet is pummeling Lithuania with DDoS attacks

Enlarge / Drowning in a sea of data. (credit: Getty Images) Internet services in Lithuania came under "intense" distributed denial of service attacks on Monday as the pro-Russia threat-actor group Killnet took credit.…

How to get started with machine learning and AI

Enlarge / "It's a cookbook?!" (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) "Artificial Intelligence" as we know it today is, at best, a misnomer. AI is in no way intelligent, but it is artificial. It…

Mega says it can’t decrypt your files. New POC exploit shows otherwise

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) In the decade since larger-than-life character Kim Dotcom founded Mega, the cloud storage service has amassed 250 million registered users and stores a whopping 120 billion…

High fossil fuel prices are good for the planet—here’s how to keep it that way

Enlarge (credit: MCCAIG/Getty) In the UK, it now costs more than 100 pounds to fill up a typical family car with petrol, and oil prices could rise even further. But are such high…

Police linked to hacking campaign to frame Indian activists

Enlarge / Bike rally by police personnel during "We Make Pune City Safe" awareness campaign on October 3, 2017, in Pune, India. (credit: Pratham Gokhale/Getty) Police forces around the world have increasingly used…

Tsunami of junk traffic that broke DDoS records delivered by tiniest of botnets

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) A massive flood of malicious traffic that recently set a new distributed denial-of-service record came from an unlikely source. A botnet of just 5,000 devices was…