New Zealanders are voting this week in an election focused on rising costs of living and the economy, as pollsters forecast a tight contest and neither main party close to winning a majority.
North Korean hackers pulled off the biggest cyber heist ever by duping a Binance engineer into thinking he was being recruited for a job, the crypto exchange says.
Supermarket fridges and freezers in several European countries have malfunctioned after a reported cyber-attack. It comes as the UK’s cybersecurity body warns it expects AI-powered hacking attacks on infrastructure such as power stations, airports and hospitals. Lucy Hough speaks to global tech reporter Aisha Down
Firm reveals details about how its cryptocurrency exchange was compromised, saying operation began in June The hackers behind the $6.3bn (£4.7bn) Binance heist used bogus job interviews, malicious software and an internal AI tool, the company has revealed. The world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange was compromised in an operation that began with an inadvertent download of malware in June, led to a recruitment scam in September and then a raid last week of “hot wallets” where billions of dollars worth of crypto-assets were taken. Continue reading...
Supermarket fridges and freezers in several European countries have malfunctioned after a reported cyber-attack, while the UK’s cybersecurity body warns it expects AI-powered hacking attacks on other infrastructure. Lucy Hough speaks to global tech reporter Aisha Down
After a profits dip, the chain’s demerger from its sister food company still makes sense but is unlikely to reveal tons of value Primark brings forward home deliveries plan by two years as profits slide The business logic for demerging Primark from Associated British Foods’ greater Ovaltine-to-Twinings empire – an event due to happen by the end of next year – is impeccable. Read this year’s results statement and you wonder why the controlling Weston family took 20 years to get behind the idea. One paragraph can be about a yeast plant in India or the impact of high gas prices on sugar-refining