hacker
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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
"Asos hacker havoc" is the headline on the front page of the Metro.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
Cyber-security experts said the systems protecting Australia's Medicare were just not strong enough, and a skilled human hacker could have got around them.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
She needed to hack a hacker in order to make sure that Kinloch didn’t win the Stavros Challenge.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
Binance said hackers swiped $6.3 billion of cryptocurrencies from the exchange’s digital wallets by breaking into a Binance engineer’s laptop.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
In nearly all cases investigators have blamed hackers from North Korea, pointing to the infamous Lazarus Group - also know as TraderTraitor.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
While there has been no official confirmation, analyst firms TRM Labs, Chainalysis and Elliptic point to hackers linked to North Korea, specifically the group known as TraderTraitor or the "Lazarus Group".
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
The coins served as collateral the hackers used to borrow almost 20,000 ether, worth about $44.6 million at the time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
“I’ve employed enough hackers to know a good one when I see one. You would’ve been discovered sooner or later.”
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
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