Hackers

One posting from Hainan Xiandun stood out. The ad, on a Sichuan University computer science hiring board from 2018, boasted that Xiandun had “received a considerable number of government-secret-related business.”The company, based in…

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…

"Human life is involved, so cybersecurity is a top priority for us," said Kevin Tierney, vice president of global cybersecurity for General Motors. The company, which has 90 full-time cybersecurity engineers, practices what it calls…

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…