Ben Harris was a mischievous youngster who tinkered with networks, evolved through legit pentesting and became founder and CEO of WatchTowr.

Refund fraud is now a business, with methods and tutorials sold to exploit return policies for profit. Flare shows how fraudsters turn refunds and chargebacks into a repeatable profit model.

A hacker exploited Anthropic PBC’s artificial intelligence chatbot to carry out a series of attacks against Mexican government agencies, resulting in the theft of a huge trove of sensitive tax and ...

Marquis Software Solutions, a Texas-based financial services provider, is blaming a ransomware attack that impacted its systems and affected dozens of U.S. banks and credit unions in August 2025 on a ...

Cybersecurity executive Chaim Mazal says joining a hacker community as a kid helped jump-start his career.

Regular Hackaday readers will no doubt be familiar with the work of Matthew Alt, AKA [wrongbaud]. His deep-dive blog posts ...

Criminals are routing cyberattacks through ordinary households using residential proxy networks. Learn how devices get hijacked and how to stop it.

Now, Israeli startup Tenzai says that earlier this month its AI hacker performed better than 99% of the 125,000 human competitors who faced off in a series of six so-called capture the flag (CTF) ...

Authorities say LeakBase was "one of the world’s largest online forums for cybercriminals," and maintained an archive of ...

According to X user Dark Web Informer, a cybercriminal known as Kamirmassabi recently posted an ad on an underground hacking forum, offering to sell a zero-day ...

Kids may be digital natives, but that doesn't mean they understand online risks. Here are five practical tips to start building cybersecurity skills at home.