These days, pretty much every company uses computers to manage at least some part of their business operations. Even “old school” small businesses will use digital tools to track inventory, income, ...

Teenage hackers are quietly reshaping cybercrime. They’re not movie-style geniuses, but persistent, socially connected, and often addicted—causing real harm through data breaches and feeding a cycle ...

Imagine being able to sit behind a hacker and observe them take control of a computer and play around with it. That’s pretty much what two security researchers did thanks to a large network of ...

Hackers are waiting for the moment quantum computing breaks cryptography and enables the mass decryption of years of stolen information. In preparation, they are harvesting even more encrypted data ...

Profiling is controversial -- even among hackers. A project to develop profiles of different types of hackers has some researchers up in arms and others intrigued. The Hackers Profiling Project (HPP), ...

Artificial intelligence tools are helping hackers find and exploit vulnerable systems more quickly, and accelerate everything ...

Hackers accelerated the laundering of funds in the second half of 2025, using DeFi protocols and Web3 infrastructure to fragment and disguise their haul. Highly liquid protocols were attacked the most ...