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 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...
Read moreRedTorch Formed from Ashes of Norse Corp.
March 22 2021Remember Norse Corp., the company behind the interactive "pew-pew" cyber attack map shown in the image blow? Norse imploded rather suddenly in 2016 following a series of managerial missteps...
Read moreFintech Giant Fiserv Used Unclaimed Domain
March 17 2021If you sell Web-based software for a living and ship code that references an unregistered domain name, you are asking for trouble. But when the same mistake is made...
Read moreA Basic Timeline of the Exchange Mass-Hack
March 8 2021Sometimes when a complex story takes us by surprise or knocks us back on our heels, it pays to revisit the events in a somewhat linear fashion. Here's a...
Read moreIs Your Browser Extension a Botnet Backdoor?
March 1 2021A company that rents out access to more than 10 million Web browsers so that clients can hide their true Internet addresses has built its network by paying browser...
Read moreHow $100M in Jobless Claims Went to Inmates
February 25 2021The U.S. Labor Department's inspector general said this week that roughly $100 million in fraudulent unemployment insurance claims were paid in 2020 to criminals who are already in jail....
Read moreWhat’s most interesting about the Florida water system hack? That we heard about it at all.
February 10 2021Stories about computer security tend to go viral when they bridge the vast divide between geeks and luddites, and this week's news about a hacker who tried to poison...
Read moreDDoS-Guard To Forfeit Internet Space Occupied by Parler
January 21 2021Parler, the beleaguered social network advertised as a "free speech" alternative to Facebook and Twitter, has had a tough month. Apple and Google removed the Parler app from its...
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