Plus: State-sponsored AI hacking is here, Google hosts a CBP face recognition app, and more of the week’s top security news.

The concept of "hacking back" has drawn attention—and generated controversy—lately as geopolitics focuses increasingly on the threat of cyberwar. The idea that cyberattack victims should be legally ...

Last week, a group of mysterious hackers dumped hacking tools from the world’s most powerful spying group, the National Security Agency, and demanded millions in dollars of bitcoins to reveal more ...

I recently heard of yet another penetration test in which the vendor charged $150,000 for two days of testing. It seemed pretty expensive to me, but I assumed that the testers must have brought in ...

China-linked hackers exploited multiple CVEs in April 2025 to target global entities with advanced persistence.

Hackers are sometimes used as consultants to help companies improve their digital security. Referred to as ethical hackers, they use hacking software to test your systems to see if they’re vulnerable ...

Generative AI promises a future where you no longer need to be a skilled writer to draft a story or a trained software engineer to code. But there’s a dark side to this democratization: AI is enabling ...

A newly discovered malware campaign suggests that hackers have themselves become the targets of other hackers, who are infecting and repackaging popular hacking tools with malware. Cybereason’s Amit ...

COMMENTARY--Mix a rabid love of freedom with an intense dislike of corporate or state-sponsored censorship, fold in the wacky collective brilliance of a group of rogue coders, and what do you get?