1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (329+ words) Aug 4 (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday overturned a ruling that had temporarily barred Perplexity from using ​its AI-powered agentic shopping tools on Amazon's platform. In a novel legal dispute, the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals determined that…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago   (905+ words) By Raphael Satter, AJ Vicens and Anirban Sen WASHINGTON, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Ransom-seeking hackers who use phone calls to compromise their victims targeted dozens of prominent U.S. financial institutions and other businesses over the past month, according to Google and internet intelligence…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (672+ words) Two young members of a criminal hacking group, who livestreamed themselves carrying out a cyber attack on Transport for London (TfL) that forced the organisation to "pull the plug" on its own systems, have been jailed. Thalha Jubair, 20, and Owen…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (1401+ words) Conti, one of the world's largest ransomware groups, spent years hacking people. But in 2022 the tables turned when the criminal gang imploded and thousands of their internal messages were leaked online. What do they reveal? As the news breaks that…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (554+ words) Two men have admitted their involvement in a cyber attack that cost Transport for London (TfL) an estimated £39 million and caused widespread disruption, the National Crime Agency (NCA) has confirmed. Thalha Jubair, 20, and Owen Flowers, 18, targeted TfL's network between 29 August…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (741+ words) Google said Monday that it had disrupted a criminal group's attempt to use artificial intelligence to exploit another company's previously unknown digital vulnerability, adding to heightened worries across government and private industry about AI's risks for cybersecurity. Google shared limited…...

3+ mon, 2+ hour ago   (277+ words) AUSTIN (KXAN) — The FBI is ramping up efforts to combat cybercrime through a coordinated nationwide initiative designed to disrupt the networks and resources used by online criminals. The campaign, known as Operation Riptide, targets not only cybercriminals themselves but also…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (597+ words) One Of The Most Accurate Movies About Hackers Is This '90s Robert Redford Gem AOL.com The '90s were a special time, with hacking themes abound. The internet was still new and hadn't yet been taken over by corporations. Computing still had…...