The culprit behind the CIA's largest data breach in history has officially been sentenced. The US Attorney's Office of the Southern District of New York has reportedly officially sentenced Joshua Schulte to 40 years in prison as well as a lifetime of supervised release.
If you use a computer, your data likely got leaked in what researchers have called the mother of all data breaches. Twenty brands have had over 100 billion leaked records, with the largest being Tencent's 1.5 billion. Brands more familiar to Western consumers such as LinkedIn, X, Venmo, Canva, Apollo and Adobe have also been hit. Cybernews Head of Security Research Mantas Sasnauskas summed up the scale of the shocking breach, saying "Probably the majority of the population have been affected." W
China hackers proved to have compromised software updates for Tencent and WPS Office with spyware. Legitimate software updates has reportedly been compromised by China hackers by implanting spyware in major applications against companies and users from the United Kingdom, Japan, and China since 2018.
AI proves to be the next biggest tool for hackers, as warned by the UK's GCHQ. Artificial Intelligence (AI) will soon help cybercriminals in carrying out cyberattacks, as reportedly warned by United Kingdom's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), in its newly published report 'The near-term impact of AI on the cyber threat.