When Taylor Swift released her twelfth studio album, “The Life of a Showgirl,” in October, the album sparked record streams as well as an onslaught of criticism. While a portion of the online ...

This article is based on coverage by Meta.mk News Agency published on November 16 and November 23, 2025. An edited version is republished here under a content-sharing agreement between Global Voices ...

A simple database permission change triggered a global failure, highlighting how self-inflicted software errors now cause more disruptions than cyberattacks. A massive outage at content delivery ...

I have a t-shirt that proudly and loudly proclaims that it gets worse before it gets worse. It just got worse for Microsoft users. Hot on the heels of Windows 10, 11 and Server users being urged to ...

ClickFix attacks have evolved to feature videos that guide victims through the self-infection process, a timer to pressure targets into taking risky actions, and automatic detection of the operating ...

Bot networks are now a brand problem, too. Coordinated webs of fake social-media personas have historically been the domain of fraudsters and state-based actors, such as the infamous Russian troll ...

Why do you need a Minecraft VPN? Playing Minecraft is never better than when you're playing with friends in a world that is inevitably going to end up experiencing a massive amount of destruction and ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – New Mexico Department of Game and Fish officials said a cyber attack is affecting online license sales. The department said it experienced a bot attack, which means automated ...

Since at least 2021, the federal government says, the "Rapper Bot" DDoS-for-hire botnet launched "large-scale cyber attacks." Now, an Oregon man—Ethan Foltz, 22—has been accused of being behind the ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – An Oregon man was charged in a federal complaint on Tuesday for allegedly leading large-scale cyberattacks across dozens of countries. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the ...

Alaska federal prosecutors on Tuesday charged a 22-year-old Oregon man with operating a wide-reaching and destructive botnet blamed for several years of cyberattacks, including one earlier this year ...