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,...
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In January, we learned about a Chinese espionage campaign that exploited four zero-days in Microsoft Exchange. One of the characteristics of the campaign, in the later days...
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Read moreWeLeakInfo Leaked Customer Payment Info
March 15 2021A little over a year ago, the FBI and law enforcement partners overseas seized WeLeakInfo[.]com, a wildly popular service that sold access to more than 12 billion usernames and...
Read moreU.S. Indicts North Korean Hackers in Theft of $200 Million
February 17 2021The U.S. Justice Department today unsealed indictments against three men accused of working with the North Korean regime to carry out some of the most damaging cybercrime attacks over...
Read moreChinese Supply-Chain Attack on Computer Systems
February 13 2021
Bloomberg News has a major story about the Chinese hacking computer motherboards made by Supermicro, Levono, and others. It’s been going on since at least 2008. The US...
Read moreAnother SolarWinds Orion Hack
February 4 2021
At the same time the Russians were using a backdoored SolarWinds update to attack networks worldwide, another threat actor — believed to be Chinese in origin — was using...
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...
Read moreThe US government has warned of a ransomware escalation against the healthcare sector. BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN THE REST OF US CAN RELAX!
Read moreOn Monday, Oct. 27, KrebsOnSecurity began following up on a tip from a reliable source that an aggressive Russian cybercriminal gang known for deploying ransomware was preparing to disrupt...
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