This head-spinning year is finally drawing to a close. Sure, 2020 will be remembered for all sorts of unforeseen events and difficulties, but it’s presented some cool opportunities as well! As for us, we have been busy expanding our operations — not only in the traditional computer cybersecurity segment, but show more ...
Today marks the 11th anniversary of KrebsOnSecurity! Thank you, Dear Readers, for your continued encouragement and support! With the ongoing disruption to life and livelihood wrought by the Covid-19 pandemic, 2020 has been a fairly horrid year by most accounts. And it’s perhaps fitting that this was also a leap show more ...
The United States Treasury’s Financial Crime Enforcement Network (FinCEN) asked the financial sector to watch for and report evidence of COVID-19 vaccine fraud, ransomware and other scams.
Microsoft fixed a zero-day vulnerability in June, but the company did a poor job. Security researchers from Google’s Project Zero showed that attackers could still use the zero-day, despite the patch.
Yesterday, Wasabi users suddenly found that they could no longer access their storage buckets hosted on the wasabisys.com domain as one of its endpoints was used to host malware.
Microsoft says that the end goal of the SolarWinds supply chain compromise was to pivot to the victims' cloud assets after deploying the Sunburst/Solorigate backdoor on their local networks.
The Voyager crypto brokerage platform halted trading yesterday after suffering an attack targeting their DNS configuration. It was later disclosed that an attack was conducted against the platform.
Hackers installed keylogger and copied NZBGeek database exposing personal details of all users. While operating smoothly, as the site normally does, suddenly the site became unreachable.
"Recently, offenders have been using victims' smart devices, including video and audio capable home surveillance devices, to carry out swatting attacks," the FBI said in a PSA published today.
Though some researchers say that the scale and severity of ransomware attacks crossed a bright line in 2020, others describe this year as simply the next step in a gradual and predictable devolution.
The college has become aware of a data security incident that may have involved the personal information of certain community members. It is offering complimentary credit monitoring services to them.
More than 4 in 10 firms in North America use out-of-date technology and lose nearly 50% more money in a data breach than companies running updated software and hardware, a new Kaspersky report said.
In almost 44% of cases, developers of computer programs fix discovered vulnerabilities in products from the point of view of information security only after three months due to slow software updates.
Limited visibility into complex cloud infrastructure makes it harder for CISOs to monitor and report on risk profiles; and compliance efforts can’t keep up with the cloud’s fast development cycle.
The attack took place on the General Medical Laboratory (AML) in the Antwerp district of Hoboken. Hackers installed ransomware on the lab’s website, bringing it to a standstill.
GenRx Pharmacy, a Scottsdale, Arizona-based healthcare organization, has warned hundreds of thousands of patients over a potential data breach following a ransomware attack earlier this year.
EgavilanMedia My To Do List version 1.0 suffers from a persistent cross site scripting vulnerability.
