Instagram is alerting users who were targeted by hackers during AI chatbot attacks
https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/meta-ai-smartphone-laptop.jpg?resize=1200,800 The widespread hacking campaign that relied on [...]
Grand Theft Auto V cheat service gets hacked, exposing thousands of gamers
https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/grand-theft-auto-v.jpg?resize=1200,800 Atlas Menu, a cheat service for popular [...]
Hackers hijacked Instagram accounts by tricking Meta AI support chatbot into granting access
https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/meta-ai-icon-smartphone.jpg?resize=1200,800 Instagram has resolved a security issue that [...]
Microsoft under fire for threatening security researcher with criminal investigation
https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/microsoft-logo.jpg?resize=1200,800 After a security researcher published a series [...]
Hackers are trying to steal Signal users’ backups in new wave of phishing attacks
https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/signal-app-icon-phone.jpg?resize=1200,800 Hackers are targeting Signal users in an [...]
CrowdStrike and Google take down botnet used by hackers to target software developers in supply chain attacks
https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/source-code-on-screen.jpg?resize=1200,704 CrowdStrike, working with Google and Shadowserver, a [...]
Iranian hackers blamed for breach of Los Angeles transit system that took weeks to recover
https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/los-angeles-metro.jpg?resize=1200,800 Security researchers say a March breach of [...]
Ghost hackers: the cybersecurity mystery that nobody has solved
https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/hacker-anonymous-mask-dark.jpg?resize=1200,800 In the long history of hacking, there have [...]
These special phone and app features can help protect you from spyware
https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/dark-phone-person-spyware.jpg?resize=1200,800 Spyware attacks on journalists, human rights defenders, [...]
Kash Patel’s clothing brand website shut down after reports it was hacked
https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/kash-patel-fbi-donald-trump.jpg?resize=1200,800 The merchandise website of FBI director Kash [...]