On Aug. 13, 2020, someone uploaded a suspected malicious file to VirusTotal, a service that scans submitted files against more than five dozen antivirus and security products. Last month,...
Read moreMicrosoft Patch Tuesday, April 2021 Edition
April 13 2021Microsoft today released updates to plug at least 110 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other products. The patches include four security fixes for Microsoft Exchange Server...
Read moreSomeone is selling account information for 21 million customers of ParkMobile, a mobile parking app that's popular in North America. The stolen data includes customer email addresses, phone numbers,...
Read moreAre You One of the 533M People Who Got Facebooked?
April 6 2021Ne'er-do-wells leaked personal data -- including phone numbers -- for some 553 million Facebook users this week. Facebook says the data was collected before 2020 when it changed things...
Read moreRansom Gangs Emailing Victim Customers for Leverage
April 5 2021Some of the top ransomware gangs are deploying a new pressure tactic to push more victim organizations into paying an extortion demand: Emailing the victim's customers and partners directly,...
Read moreUbiquiti All But Confirms Breach Response Iniquity
April 4 2021For four days this past week, Internet-of-Things giant Ubiquiti failed to respond to requests for comment on a whistleblower's allegations that the company had massively downplayed a "catastrophic" two-month...
Read moreNew KrebsOnSecurity Mobile-Friendly Site
April 1 2021Dear Readers, this has been long overdue, but at last I give you a more responsive, mobile-friendly version of KrebsOnSecurity. We tried to keep the visual changes to a...
Read moreWhistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic”
March 30 2021On Jan. 11, Ubiquiti Inc. [NYSE:UI] — a major vendor of cloud-enabled Internet of Things (IoT) devices such as routers, network video recorders and security cameras — disclosed that...
Read moreNo, I Did Not Hack Your MS Exchange Server
March 28 2021New data suggests someone has compromised more than 21,000 Microsoft Exchange Server email systems worldwide and infected them with malware that invokes both KrebsOnSecurity and Yours Truly by name. Let's...
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