as in assailants
one who violently sets upon another
was able to pick her attacker out of the police lineup
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Gold said they were chased by attackers on motorbikes and some of their pursuers were armed with knives.
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Corky Siemaszko, NBC News, 8 Nov. 2024
Footage circulating on social media showed supporters of the Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer team being chased down and assaulted on Thursday night, with one video geolocated by NBC News to near Amsterdam's central station that showed fighting on the streets between the Israelis and their attackers.
—Corky Siemaszko, NBC News, 8 Nov. 2024
The naivete is challenging to understand when attackers use virtually every standard tool—from hardware and software to cloud resources—to conduct their operations.
—Denis Mandich, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
Crypto agility—the ability to quickly switch between and upgrade cryptographic primitives—will become increasingly important for both defenders and attackers.
—Anand Kashyap, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
The attackers accessed thousands of support tickets dating back to 2018, which may have included personal identification documents.
—Lars Daniel, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
This allowed attackers to maintain access to the Archive’s Zendesk support platform, where sensitive user support tickets were stored.
—Lars Daniel, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
This token allowed the attackers to access the Archive’s source code and steal sensitive data, affecting 31 million users.
—Lars Daniel, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
In what could be termed as a bizarre and frightening incident, robot vacuum cleaners across several cities in the US were hacked remotely, with attackers using audio speakers on the devices to relay racial slurs at owners.
—Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 19 Oct. 2024
Corky Siemaszko, NBC News, 8 Nov. 2024
Footage circulating on social media showed supporters of the Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer team being chased down and assaulted on Thursday night, with one video geolocated by NBC News to near Amsterdam's central station that showed fighting on the streets between the Israelis and their attackers.
—Corky Siemaszko, NBC News, 8 Nov. 2024
The naivete is challenging to understand when attackers use virtually every standard tool—from hardware and software to cloud resources—to conduct their operations.
—Denis Mandich, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
Crypto agility—the ability to quickly switch between and upgrade cryptographic primitives—will become increasingly important for both defenders and attackers.
—Anand Kashyap, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
The attackers accessed thousands of support tickets dating back to 2018, which may have included personal identification documents.
—Lars Daniel, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
This allowed attackers to maintain access to the Archive’s Zendesk support platform, where sensitive user support tickets were stored.
—Lars Daniel, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
This token allowed the attackers to access the Archive’s source code and steal sensitive data, affecting 31 million users.
—Lars Daniel, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
In what could be termed as a bizarre and frightening incident, robot vacuum cleaners across several cities in the US were hacked remotely, with attackers using audio speakers on the devices to relay racial slurs at owners.
—Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 19 Oct. 2024
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“Attackers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/attackers. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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