Elon Musk has spent decades building a universe of companies that has served as an incubator for up-and-coming engineers and a proving ground for his inner circle. That universe — an ecosystem of Silicon Valley tech titans, veterans of his companies like Tesla and SpaceX, and a crop of fresh-faced hackers and software engineers — […]
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A group of hackers with links to the North Korean regime uploaded Android spyware onto the Google Play app store and were able to trick some people into downloading it, according to cybersecurity firm Lookout. In a report published on Wednesday, and exclusively shared with TechCrunch ahead of time, Lookout details an espionage campaign involving
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A ransomware group called Hunters International has published some of the data it claims to have stolen from Tata Technologies, just over a month after the Indian company confirmed a ransomware attack that resulted in the suspension of some services. The leaked data, published on the gang’s dark web leak site — which TechCrunch has seen
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Apple released patches for a bug that it says “may have been exploited in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals,” citing a report. The zero-day bug was found in WebKit, the browser engine powering Safari and other apps, and allowed hackers to break out of WebKit’s protective sandbox with “maliciously crafted web content,”
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Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has fired more than a hundred employees working for the U.S. government’s cybersecurity agency CISA, including “red team” staffers, two people affected by the layoffs told TechCrunch. The people, who asked not to be named, said affected employees were axed immediately when their network access was revoked with
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You’re not the only one getting voicemails about your car’s extended warranty. According to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), about 2.6 million people submitted reports on falling victim to fraud in 2024, totaling $12.5 billion in losses. That’s a big jump from $2.5 billion lost in 2023, when the FTC received roughly the same
President Donald Trump nominated Sean Plankey to head the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), according to a White House email sent to journalists on Tuesday. Plankey has several years of experience working for the U.S. government. In 2013, Plankey gave cybersecurity support to U.S. forces deployed in Afghanistan, then worked at U.S. Cyber Command,
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Passwords are ubiquitous, despite not being foolproof and cannot alone protect your online identity. Almost one-third of data breaches reported over the past decade happened due to stolen credentials, per Verizon, including some of the biggest breaches of all time. Instead, the industry has largely found passkeys arguably the most prominent solution to replace passwords.
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We’re only a few months into 2025, but the recent hack of U.S. edtech giant PowerSchool is on track to be one of the biggest education data breaches in recent years. PowerSchool, which provides K-12 software to more than 18,000 schools to support some 60 million students across North America, first disclosed the data breach
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A hacker compromised the U.S. edtech giant PowerSchool months before its ‘massive’ data breach in December, according to a now-published forensic report into the incident conducted by U.S. cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike. In a letter sent to affected customers last week, seen by TechCrunch, PowerSchool confirmed that an investigation into the incident has revealed that its
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