Authorities say the darknet platform had half a million users, where drugs, counterfeit money, stolen credit card data, anonymous SIM cards and malware were traded. The suspected operator was arrested in Germany.

An “intelligent” system that draws conclusions about a person’s political orientation by simply analyzing photos of his face was developed by a researcher at Stanford University in the United States.

The U.S. nuclear weapons agency and at least three states were hacked as part of a suspected Russian cyber-attack that struck a number of federal government agencies, according to people with knowledge of the matter, indicating widening reach of one of the biggest cybersecurity breaches in recent memory.

Since 2015, the Gates Foundation has supported Khushi Baby, a microchip-based project in India that helps monitor children's vaccination through attachable NFC microchip necklaces.  

Facebook Inc and Alphabet’s Google , the two biggest players in online advertising, used a series of deals to consolidate their market power illegally, Texas and nine other states alleged in a lawsuit against Google on Wednesday.

DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alex Karp, the co-founder and CEO of Palantir Technologies (NYSE:PLTR), spoke via teleconference on December 3 with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis about Palantir’s ever-expanding partnership with the government of Greece to support their COVID-19 response efforts. Dr. Karp and Prime Minister Mitsotakis were joined by Palantir Executive Josh Harris and Kyriakos Pierrakakis, Minister of Digital Governance of Greece, to explore new ways to keep Greece ahead of the curve with their public health response.

Facebook says it will start removing false claims about Covid-19 vaccines to prevent "imminent physical harm".

United States secret service NSA for years abused a cooperation agreement with Denmark to spy on allies in Europe, including the Netherlands, Danish public broadcaster DR reported based on reports from a whistleblower and confirmation from various sources. 

Facebook Inc. will reject ads that discourage people from getting vaccines, citing a new policy meant to prevent “harm” to public health efforts.

Peiter Zatko’s appointment follows mass attack on social media platform in July

Hackers used unknowns, until recently, tools in order to spy on defense and aerospace agencies. The attacks started with phishing emails and social engineering and were very targeted. Her researchers McAfee spoke for the first time about this campaign, known as Operation North Star, a few months ago.

Biomedical cyber attack: Hackers send phishing emailsA cyber attack is underway targeting corporate users from many companies in Greece, with emails which seems to be come from Biomedicine.

Several Armenian hacker groups carried out attacks on the banking system of Azerbaijan, information security expert Samvel Martirosyan says.

The online shopping have become very popular in recent years and especially during the quarantine period, as they are convenient and we do not even have to leave the house to do them.

According to a statement from the University of Tennessee Hospital, one infringement has affected about 235.000 people.

Cybersecurity professionals are concerned that they are being targeted by various state-funded hackers.

A tool which monitors the spread of COVID-19, which was built by its state government Uttar Pradesh, personally reported data about 8 million Indian citizens.

Prosecutors believe the woman died from delayed treatment after hackers attacked a hospital’s computers. It could be the first fatality from a ransomware attack.

Over the years, more and more advanced cyber threats appear. Many times state hackers do cyber attacks, with the ultimate goal of gaining their countries. But where do they focus more on their attacks? Now, government hackers are focusing more on stealing credentials than stealing money. But why is this happening?