The US military conducted a major cyberattack on Iranian proxy group with forces in Iraq, Syria and inside Iran in the days after Iran shot down a US drone last week, according to two US officials with knowledge of what happened.
Marcus Hutchins, the British hacker who stopped one of the most destructive cyberattacks in the world, has taken a plea deal, admitting guilt in the US to unrelated hacking charges.
Hackers in China have significantly stepped up attacks on US companies as the two countries have clashed over trade and technology.
The Justice Department announced cyber hacking charges against a North Korean national linked to the computer hacking of Sony in 2014, the WannaCry ransomware attack, and other significant cyber intrusions in a criminal complaint unsealed Thursday.
The FBI has been told about a cyberattack on the campaign of David Min, a Democratic congressional candidate who lost in his California primary, two sources tell CNN.
A former US House candidate in California told CNN on Wednesday that his campaign to unseat Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher was hacked, the latest example of alleged cyberattacks interfering with US elections.
Federal security officials have created a new level of defense aimed at protecting banks, energy companies and other structures from massive cyberhacking attempts, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen announced Tuesday in New York.
Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats raised the alarm on growing cyberattack threats against the United States, saying the situation is at a "critical point" and coming out forcefully against Russia.
California's new data protection law gives consumers sweeping control over how much personal information companies can collect. It lets people opt out of having their data collected entirely, and even makes it easier to sue companies in the wake of a data breach.
The US Treasury Department has imposed fresh sanctions on five Russian entities and three individuals, saying that they worked with Moscow's military and intelligence services in an effort to conduct cyberattacks against the US.
The FBI is asking all Americans to reboot their internet routers after warning that Russia has compromised hundreds of thousands of devices worldwide with malware.
The personal data and payment information of Sears and Delta Air Lines customers may have been exposed in a data breach last year.
The White House lambasted Russia in a statement Thursday for "the most destructive and costly cyber-attack in history" and said it "will be met with international consequences."
The British government says that Russia was behind a massive global cyberattack that hit major companies in June 2017.
Bitcoin is booming and so are criminal schemes looking to make money off the trend.
The UK Parliament's computer system has been hit by a cyberattack, a spokesperson for the Houses of Parliament said in a statement.
There's mounting evidence that North Korea was behind last month's WannaCry ransomware attack that hit hundreds of thousands of computers around the world.
Most Chipotle restaurants were hacked -- and customer credit card information was stolen.
When portraying hackers, hoodies are everyone's favorite stereotype: from TV shows, to movies, to articles on CNN.
