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Tor is one of the most widely used and powerful technologies for online anonymity. It lets users hide their identity and location, providing privacy and protecting data. However, like any system, Tor has vulnerabilities that can be exploited to undermine user anonymity. This article outlines...

A fake VPN in this scheme doesn’t work as a way to bypass censorship; it’s a trap for people trying to hide from surveillance. Analysts at Insikt Group, the research arm of Recorded Future, identified new infrastructure used by the TAG-182 group to distribute the spyware tool MarkiRAT to...

Why It Matters Stock Android is a product of a company that makes money from your data. Every 4.5 minutes, a phone sends data to Google’s servers even without active use - this is a documented finding from a Trinity College Dublin study. A custom ROM removes this layer completely. A cheap phone...

Are you sure you know how Canvas Fingerprinting actually works? Most users — and even developers of anti-detect browsers — tend to look at Canvas the same way: generate a hash, spoof it, check it on BrowserLeaks, and if the fingerprint changes, assume everything works. But the reality of...

Cybercriminals also accidentally left in the public domain more than 184 thousand stolen payment card data. Over the past three years, the Keeper cybercrime group has carried out about 570 hacking e-commerce...

An active campaign from a threat actor potentially linked to Russia is targeting Microsoft 365 accounts of individuals at organizations of interest using device code phishing. The targets are in the government, NGO, IT services and technology, defense, telecommunications, health, and energy/oil...

Hackers stole data from Berlin government networks. Authorities refused to pay the ransom. Hackers stole data from Berlin government networks. Authorities refused to pay the ransom. Hackers claim to have exfiltrated nearly 6 terabytes of data from the Berlin state government networks...

The 2026 print edition of Hacker's quarterly issue has already reached its third. In this new magazine, we've compiled the best materials from recent months, with routers and networks being one of the main topics: our authors extract root shells from password-less routers, investigate a provider...