Real Hacking

KrebsOnSecurity.com celebrates its 12th anniversary today! Maybe “celebrate” is too indelicate a word for a year wracked by the global pandemics of C

Photography company Shutterfly announced that it has been suffered from a ransomware attack that had impacted some services. In a statement, the compan

<strong> Microsoft</strong> , <strong> Adobe</strong> , and <strong> Google</strong> all issued security updates to their products today. The Microsoft patches include six previously disclosed security flaw

The consulting firm <strong> PricewaterhouseCoopers</strong> recently published lessons learned from the disruptive and costly ransomware attack in May 2021 on Ireland’

A 31-year-old Canadian man has been arrested and charged with fraud in connection with numerous ransomware attacks against businesses, government agen

Rarely do cybercriminal gangs that deploy ransomware gain the initial access to the target themselves. More commonly, that access is purchased from a

In January 2021, technology vendor <strong> Ubiquiti Inc.</strong> [NYSE:UI] disclosed that a breach at a third party cloud provider had exposed customer account creden

Tech manufacturing giant Panasonic has  confirmed  that its network was accessed illegally this month during a cyberattack. Panasonic has disclosed a sec

A visualization of the Internet made using network routing data. Image: Barrett Lyon, opte.org. Imagine being able to disconnect or redirect Internet t

In August, KrebsOnSecurity warned that scammers were contacting people and asking them to unleash ransomware inside their employer’s network, in excha

One of the more common ways cybercriminals cash out access to bank accounts involves draining the victim’s funds via <strong> Zelle</strong> , a “peer-to-peer” (P2P) pay

The CEO of a South Carolina technology firm has pleaded guilty to 20 counts of wire fraud in connection with an elaborate network of phony companies s

The <strong> Federal Bureau of Investigation</strong> (FBI) confirmed today that its fbi.gov domain name and Internet address were used to blast out thousands of fake e