In brief: We tend to believe that if our Android phones are lost or stolen, a fingerprint lock will ensure that the sensitive data they hold stays safe. But Chinese researchers have found a way to ...

Chinese researchers from Tencent Labs and Zhejiang University have uncovered a new method of attack that can bypass user authentication on modern smartphones by brute-forcing fingerprints, ...

Researchers at Tencent Labs and Zhejiang University have presented a new attack called 'BrutePrint,' which brute-forces fingerprints on modern smartphones to bypass ...

One of the worrying aspects is the growing usage of language models and AI in general to organize cyberattacks. AI is increasingly being used not only to scam people, but also to brute force passwords ...

A French research team with EURECOM has discovered a scary Bluetooth security flaw. Using a brute-force attack, a man-in-the-middle (MitM) operator could spoof two connected devices using Bluetooth ...

A large-scale brute force password attack using almost 2.8 million IP addresses is underway, attempting to guess the credentials for a wide range of networking devices, including those from Palo Alto ...

A massive cyberattack targeted at China’s AI start-up DeepSeek in recent days originated in the US, according to China’s ...

Millions of devices, likely infected with malware, are being used in a hacking campaign Researchers spotted brute-force attacks against VPN and other internet-connected devices The majority of the IP ...