Thousands of families are attacked every day by cybercriminals. Cybercrime has become so pervasive that the average U.S. citizen is far likelier to be victimized online than offline. We see this ...

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The cryptocurrency market took a heavy hit on Jan. 31, with Bitcoin (BTC) tumbling below $80,000. At press time, King Crypto fell by 7% in 24 hours to trade at $77,934.46. This is the lowest it has ...

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Infrastructure delivering updates for Notepad++—a widely used text editor for Windows—was compromised for six months by suspected China-state hackers who used their control to deliver backdoored ...

The developer of the popular open source text editor Notepad++ has confirmed that hackers hijacked the software to deliver malicious updates to users over the course of several months in 2025. In a ...

Notepad++, a free open source text and code editor for the Windows operating system, suffered an "infrastructure-level compromise" last year by threat actors seeking to deliver malware to selected ...

Now that Windows 10 has reached the end of support, it's increasingly appealing to cybercriminals. While upgrading is recommended, you don't have to switch immediately—here's how you can keep your ...

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Earlier this year, the FTC forced Avast to pay consumers $16.5 million for secretly harvesting and selling their personal information to third-party clients, as revealed in my joint investigation with ...