Here's the uncomfortable truth. If someone can break into the personal email of the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, your inbox is not off limits. Malicious actors targeted the personal ...

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An Iran-linked hacktivist group has claimed to have hacked a personal email account of FBI Director Kash Patel — Kevin Dietsch An Iranian-linked hacker group claimed on Friday to have hacked the email ...

FBI Director Kash Patel, listens during a House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence hearing to examine worldwide threats, Thursday, March 19, 2026, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Tom ...

FBI Director Kash Patel became the latest high-profile target of a foreign cyberattack today when an Iran-linked hacking group claimed to have broken into his personal email account and posted the ...

Cybercriminals, part of a gang known as Silent Ransom Group, have sent people pretending to be IT support employees to law ...

The FBI is warning of a new phishing scam targeting Microsoft Outlook users, with officials saying hackers “hijack” Microsoft ...

A fast-spreading cyberattack kit called “Kali365” allows low-skill scammers to hijack a user’s account without ever stealing ...

A Chinese hacker accused of stealing COVID-19 research from American institutions has been extradited from Italy to face federal charges, Kash Patel announced.