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Hackers have begun sending potential Uber users phishing emails, specifically tailored to trick them into divulging account passwords.

Uber reportedly said that it was still unable to confirm how many British customers' data may have been compromised.

The Iranian hacker, Behzad Mesri, who went by the pseudonym "Skote Vashat" or "Mr Smith", reportedly has links to the Iranian military.

Tether said it is now attempting to get the stolen funds back and also ensure that the hacker cannot spend the money.

Russian hackers are using the dark web to go on luxury holidays that are heavily subsidised by air miles stolen from UK residents.

A hacker group was found targeting Saudi Arabia, UAE, India, Pakistan, US and others in a massive cyber-espionage campaign.

The Lazarus hacker group has designed a malware that poses as the legitimate app – The Bible – that translates the holy book into Korean.

Security experts believe that Pyongyang's hackers could likely be working out of India and other foreign nations to provide the "Kim regime plausible deniability".

From Amaq hacks to Anonymous and Russian troll farms - here are the biggest cybersecurity news stories of the week, as chosen by the IBTimes UK technology desk.

The Pentagon accidentally left exposed three "publicly downloadable" databases, one of which contained nearly 1.8 billion of social media data.

New dark web markets that have recently cropped up appear to be run by inexperienced hackers, leaving the sites vulnerable.

"Interestingly, the malware is specifically instructed not to gather any data from vk.com, Russia's largest social media platform," Bitdefender noted.

The historic data breach occurred in October when over 46 million Malaysians' records were put up for sale on the dark web.

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation also exposed information regarding stock files and production services via unsecured cloud servers.

McAfee ClickProtect email protection service reportedly shared the malware, which was hosted on a third-party site.

The security expert who found the OnePlus app reportedly believes that the smartphone maker may have intentionally left it on devices.

"We're coming for you," an Anonymous hacker warned "organisation taking part in acts of domestic terrorism in the name of white supremacy".

The hijacked radio station is allegedly used by the Kim Jong-un regime to transmit secret codes days before Pyongyang conducts a weapons test.

The new alerts come amid rising tensions between the US and North Korea over Pyongyang's rapid advancement of its nuclear programme and defiant missile tests.

Forever 21 operates more than 815 stores in 57 countries including the US, UK, Australia,Canada and India.

Customers' names, email addresses, passwords, billing addresses, phone numbers, payment details and more may have been stolen by hackers.

IcedID is fairly new to the cybercrime arena, and its capabilities are believed to be on par with other sophisticated Trojans like Dridex and Zeus.

US president Donald Trump's personal jet, as well as the one frequently used by vice president Mike Pence, is reportedly Boeing 757.

Just hours before Isis' "news agency" website Amaq was reportedly taken down, the site claimed it had beefed up security to handle "any type of hack".

The elaborate, 3D-printed mask reportedly cost about $150 (£114) to make and can bypass Apple's new Face ID security.

Last week, over 580 Parity wallets containing millions of dollars worth of Ethereum were mysteriously locked down and inaccessible.

From the return of WikiLeaks to the Nepal bank cyber-heist: Here are the biggest cybersecurity stories of the week from the IBTimes UK technology team.

The data exposure was caused by an unsecured Apache Hive database, which leaked extensive data about both customers and drivers.

The Dark Overlord hackers stole a trove of confidential photos of high-profile clients from the plastic surgery clinic last month.

The flaw doesn't depend on jailbreak or rooting, instead capitalises on a simple developer error to expose massive amounts of sensitive data.