Best Budget Mechanical Keyboards 2025 By Matt Safford, Sarah Jacobsson Purewal last updated 2 October 25 We've tested dozens of cheap mechanical keyboards and picked the best budget options under $80.
$7.3 billion worth of cryptocurrency recovered from newly convicted 'Bitcoin Queen' — funds from fraudster thought to be the largest seizure to date By Nathaniel Mott published 30 September 25 The Metropolitan Police announced a conviction against the so-called "Bitcoin Queen" from whom they seized approximately $7.3 billion worth of cryptocurrency.
Tile exploit could let stalkers follow you with your own tracker — Bluetooth broadcasting flaw is relatively simple to exploit, researchers discover By Nathaniel Mott last updated 29 September 25 Georgia Institute of Technology researchers found design flaws in Tile location trackers that can be abused to stalk their owners.
Twitch streamer raising money for cancer treatment has funds stolen by malware-ridden Steam game — BlockBlasters title stole $150,000 from hundreds of players By Nathaniel Mott published 22 September 25 Twitch streamer "RastalandTV" had $32,000 worth of cryptocurrency stolen via malware hidden in a Steam game.
A wireless device exploit uncovered 11 years ago still hasn't been fixed by some manufacturers — six vendors and 24 devices found harbouring vulnerable firmware across routers, range extenders, and more By Nathaniel Mott published 18 September 25 Welcome to Never-patched-land.
Shai-Hulud malware campaign dubbed 'the largest and most dangerous npm supply-chain compromise in history' — 'hundreds' of JavaScript packages affected By Nathaniel Mott published 18 September 25 Security researchers are tracking a malware campaign that has compromised hundreds of packages distributed via the npm ecosystem.
JavaScript packages with billions of downloads were injected with malicious code in world's largest supply chain hack, geared to steal crypto — a phishing email is all it took to undermine npm packages By Nathaniel Mott published 9 September 25 JavaScript packages with billions of downloads were compromised by an unknown threat actor looking to steal cryptocurrency.
Jaguar Land Rover production stopped for four days and counting due to ransomware attack, company has now officially shut down — teenaged hackers from Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters take responsibility By Nathaniel Mott published 5 September 25 Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters is claiming responsibility for a cyberattack that has completely disrupted Jaguar Land Rover's production.
AI-powered PromptLocker ransomware is just an NYU research project — the code worked as a typical ransomware, selecting targets, exfiltrating selected data and encrypting volumes By Nathaniel Mott published 5 September 25 ESET's discovery of the first AI-powered ransomware turned out to be an NYU research project.
US offers $10M reward for snitching on trio of Russians that hacked critical infrastructure By Nathaniel Mott published 4 September 25 The U.S. Department of State offered a $10 million bounty via the Rewards for Justice program for information related to a trio of Russian hackers.
Report says North Korea is also posting fake jobs to steal crypto — because using AI to get fake employees real jobs at US tech firms wasn't enough By Nathaniel Mott published 4 September 25 North Korea is reportedly posting fake jobs in the cryptocurrency sector as part of a bid to steal applicants' crypto assets.
Cloudflare blocks record-setting 11.5Tbps DDoS attack two months after the previous record-setting DDoS attack By Nathaniel Mott published 3 September 25 Cloudflare said it blocked a record-setting 11.5Tbps DDoS attack that appeared to originate from Google Cloud's infrastructure.
Google is getting ready to 'hack back' as US considers shifting from cyber defense to offense — new 'Scam Farms' bill opens up new retaliatory hacking actions By Nathaniel Mott published 28 August 25 Google is reportedly planning to form a "disruption unit" that will target foreign hackers.
White House reveals nebulous plans to put government data on the blockchain — 'The Department of Commerce is going to start issuing its statistics on the blockchain because you are the crypto president' By Nathaniel Mott published 27 August 25 The White House announced plans to put statistics on 'the blockchain' for... reasons.
The first AI-powered ransomware has been discovered — "PromptLock" uses local AI to foil heuristic detection and evade API tracking [Updated] By Nathaniel Mott published 26 August 25 Hackers finally discover a practical use for local AI models
Ransomware attack disrupts Maryland's public transit service for disabled travelers — MTA says it is investigating cybersecurity incident but core services operating normally By Nathaniel Mott published 26 August 25 The service, Mobility, was unable to accept requests for rides or changes to already-booked rides following a ransomware attack.
Perplexity's AI-powered Comet browser leaves users vulnerable to phishing scams and malicious code injection — Brave and Guardio's security audits call out paid AI browser By Nathaniel Mott published 25 August 25 Brave and Guardio have revealed serious vulnerabilities in the AI-powered Comet browser.
Dev plants kill switch in ex-employer's network that crashed servers and deleted files, gets four years in the slammer — kill switch triggered by dev's removal from Active Directory when fired By Nathaniel Mott published 22 August 25 A software engineer called Davis Lu was sentenced to four years in prison for creating a kill switch in his former employer's network.
China's Great Firewall blocked all traffic to a common HTTPS port for over an hour, severing connection to the outside world — with no hint as to its intention By Nathaniel Mott published 21 August 25 Forged TCP RST+ACK packets disrupted port 443, but not common ports like 22, 80 or 8443
Popular VPN extension for Google Chrome is a security nightmare, screenshots every page users visit and sends them to anonymous developer — FreeVPN.One flagged over enormous privacy concerns By Nathaniel Mott published 20 August 25 Koi Security discovered that the popular FreeVPN extension for Google Chrome has been silently taking screenshots of every website its users visit.
Security researcher driven by free nuggets unearths McDonald's security flaw — changing 'login' to 'register' in URL prompted site to issue plain text password for a new account By Nathaniel Mott published 19 August 25 A security researcher called "BobDaHacker" revealed how they repeatedly gained access to a McDonald's platform that's supposed to be closed off to the public.
Report claims 'the era of AI hacking has arrived' — good and bad actors leveraging AI in cybersecurity arms race By Nathaniel Mott published 18 August 25 The security industry and the hackers they're supposed to defend against have both increased their use of AI as publicly available agents become more capable.
Booking.com customers learn the hard way that Unicode is tricky By Nathaniel Mott published 15 August 25 A phishing campaign targeting Booking.com users relies on a technique involving the ambiguity of Unicode characters.
Bizarre cyberattack blamed on Russia and China-linked hackers permanently breaks dozens of speed cameras in the Netherlands — authorities decline to reveal location of affected cameras, for obvious reasons By Nathaniel Mott published 15 August 25 A hack reportedly left "dozens" of speed cameras in the Netherlands inoperable and unrecoverable.
AI's soaring energy consumption is causing skyrocketing power bills for households across the US — States reporting spikes in energy costs of up to 36% By Nathaniel Mott published 12 August 25 Americans are footing the bill for the sheer amount of electricity required to operate the data centers responsible for providing access to AI tools and services.
