hacker
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The seemingly unprecedented breach of employee information was put online on Wednesday by a group called the Department of Peace alongside cybersecurity researcher and hacker maia crimew.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
Duong and the other researchers kept its existence a closely guarded secret while they worked on fixes, for fear that an AI-aided hacker might find and exploit it before they were done.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
And with the help of a former hacker turned cybersecurity expert, she tracks the man behind the mask to his home in West Africa and pays him a visit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
On the night of 13 October, Azerbaijan's State Service for Special Communications and Information Security said a "foreign hacker group" had attacked more than 100 state websites.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
Some hacker out there thought it would be funny.
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
The vulnerability to potential hackers was found by using a powerful model from OpenAI in one of the most high-profile demonstration of AI's cyber capabilities.
From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026
At first the hackers used AI to build tooling and infrastructure to host their ransomware attacks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
One major firm in this space issued warnings saying hackers had a working PoC - only to have to retract it.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
Using these tools, hackers are already claiming to have discovered ways of exploiting the PHP bugs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
Hideo has indeed hired a few hackers in the past—to help him work out bugs inside Warcross—but they were way more experienced, and probably with no criminal records.
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
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