DDoS-for-hire services, commonly called “booters” or “stressers,” allow attackers to overwhelm websites or services with ...

Universities worldwide are on alert after ShinyHunters hacked Canvas LMS, threatening to leak sensitive data of 200 million users unless a ransom is paid.

In the last 30 years or so, cybersecurity has gone from being a niche specialty within the larger field of computer science, to an industry estimated to be worth more than $170 billion made of a globe ...

HERTFORDSHIRE, England (WKRC) - Two teenagers were accused of hacking into a chain of preschools and posting images of the students online, then calling parents and demanding ransom money. The hackers ...

Weeks before the start of UC Berkeley’s fall semester, a post appeared on a popular dark web hacking forum advertising access to a “university database.” The stolen information, the hacker said, ...

When you hear "the dark web," you probably think of illegal, sordid activity, but that's not the whole picture. I don't ...

Hello, everyone, and welcome to Dark Reading Confidential. It's a podcast from the editors of Dark Reading, bringing you real stories straight from the cyber trenches. I'm your host and Dark Reading ...

The ‘dark web' is not just a mysterious corner of the internet; it is a real network used for both privacy and crime. The problem is that in India, it has increasingly been linked to serious ...

Data breaches have become a fact of our digital world. Verizon’s 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report recorded over 12,000 breaches in that year alone. That’s nearly three dozen a day. And it gets ...

The dark web often feels like a mystery, hidden beneath the surface of the internet that most people use every day. But to understand how scams and cybercrimes actually work, you need to know what ...

Gathering threat intelligence, finding the perpetrators of cyber attacks and bringing down whole ransomware gangs are some of the ways the dark web is used by defenders. The term “dark web” may paint ...

David Nield is a technology journalist from Manchester in the U.K. who has been writing about gadgets and apps for more than 20 years. He has a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Durham ...