Hackers

A post from Hainan Xiandun stood out. The ad, which appeared on a Sichuan University computer science staff committee in 2018, boasted that Xiandun had "received a significant number of government secrecy-related deals."Based in Hainan's…

Andrew Brookes | Culture | Getty ImagesMore than $ 600 million was stolen in what is probably the biggest cryptocurrency theft of all time.Hackers have exploited a vulnerability in the Poly Network, a platform that wants to connect…

In this photo illustration, a Bitcoin logo is displayed on an Android smartphone with a hacker in the background.Miguel Candela | SOPA pictures | LightRocket via Getty ImagesLONDON - DarkSide, the hacking group behind the latest…

In a separate ransomware attack on the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, DC, hackers said the price offered by the police was "too low" and this week posted 250 gigabytes of the department's data online, including databases of…

The Facebook logo is displayed on a phone screen and keyboard.Jakub Porzycki | NurPhoto via Getty ImagesGUANGZHOU, China - Facebook said on Wednesday it had blocked a group of hackers from China who were using malicious websites to infect…

Microsoft said Thursday that the far-reaching Russian hack by US government agencies and private companies had penetrated its network further than the company had previously understood.While the hackers, who presumably work for the Russian…