Hacktivists have claimed responsibility for taking down the public-facing infrastructure of popular Linux operating system distribution Ubuntu, as well as Canonical, the company that develops and maintains the software. The attack began on Thursday, and affected services that Ubuntu users rely on. “Canonical’s web infrastructure is under a sustained, cross-border …

Security researchers are sounding the alarm on a newly discovered vulnerability in the widely used web server management software cPanel and WebHost Manager (WHM). The bug allows hackers to hijack and take full control of the servers running the affected software, which is thought to be used by tens of …

Sri Lanka said on Tuesday that a payment of about $625,000 (about 199. 7 million Sri Lankan rupees) to the U. Postal Service has been missing for several weeks, after U. officials reported that the payment had failed to arrive, reports local media. Authorities detected the incident after hackers allegedly …

American energy technology company Itron has confirmed it was hit by a cyberattack in mid-April and that hackers had gained access to some of its systems. In a legally required filing with the U. Securities and Exchange Commission late on Friday, Itron said it was “notified” that it had an …

Mastodon’s flagship server was hit by a distributed denial-of-service attack on Monday, the social networking software maker said, which rendered the instance unusable at times. Much of the site was inaccessible, throwing error messages or displaying a full-screen outage warning. The makers of the decentralized social networking software, which runs …

Adobe has patched a vulnerability in its flagship document-reading apps, Acrobat DC, Reader DC and Acrobat 2024, that hackers have been actively exploiting for at least four months. The vulnerability, officially tracked as CVE-2026-34621, allows hackers to remotely plant malware on a person’s device by tricking them into opening a …

British oil and gas company Zephyr Energy says someone stole £700,000 (close to $1 million) from one of its U. -based subsidiaries by redirecting a payment meant for a contractor into a hacker-controlled account. In a regulatory filing with the London Stock Exchange on Thursday, the company said it is …

A North Korean cyberattack that last Monday briefly hijacked one of the most widely used open source projects on the web took weeks to carry out as part of a long-running campaign to target the code’s top developers. The hijacking of the Axios project on March 31 was in part …

Hims & Hers, the telehealth company that sells weight-loss drugs and sexual health prescriptions, has confirmed a data breach affecting its third-party customer service platform. The healthcare company said in a data breach notice filed with the California attorney general’s office on Thursday that the hackers stole data about user …

American toy-making giant Hasbro has confirmed a cyberattack, and the company says it may take “several weeks” before the incident is resolved. The owner of properties including Transformers, Peppa Pig, and Dungeons & Dragons said in a legally required disclosure with the U. Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday that …